angry?、furious、irritated、annoyed、mad?、indignant、?cross? ?、irate
All these words describe people feeling and/or showing anger.?
以上各詞均形容人憤怒和 / 或發(fā)怒。
feeling or showing anger 指憤怒、發(fā)怒：
~ (at/about/over sth) | ~ with/at sb (about/for sth)
〔辨析〕普通用詞，使用范圍廣泛，通常用于形容人們的情緒、行為、表情、語(yǔ)言等，也用于形容動(dòng)物或事物，常后接介詞 with/at。
Please don't be angry with me.
請(qǐng)別生我的氣。
Thousands of angry demonstrators filled the square.
廣場(chǎng)上聚滿(mǎn)了成千上萬(wàn)的憤怒示威者。
irritated
aroused to impatience or anger 引起煩躁生氣
〔辨析〕尤指不斷重復(fù)的事情或刺激導(dǎo)致煩躁生氣
If something?irritates?you, it keeps annoying you.
Their attitude irritates me...
他們的態(tài)度激怒了我。
furious
~ (with sb) | ~ (at sth/sb) | ~ (that…)
very angry 狂怒的；暴怒的
〔辨析〕強(qiáng)調(diào)十分憤怒而難以控制的，在句中常作表語(yǔ)，對(duì)某人發(fā)怒時(shí)后接介詞 with，對(duì)某事發(fā)怒時(shí)后接介詞 at。
She was absolutely furious at having been deceived.
她受了騙，怒不可遏。
He was furious with himself for letting things get so out of control.
他生自己的氣，怪自己竟讓事情搞得如此不可收拾。
I'm furious that I wasn't told about it.
這事沒(méi)有跟我說(shuō)，我十分氣憤。
Usage Note:
Angry?is normally used to talk about some-one's mood or feelings on a particular occasion. If someone is often angry, you can describe them as?bad-tempered.?She's a bad-tempered young lady.?If someone is very angry, you can describe them as?furious.?Senior police officers are furious at the blunder.?If they are less angry, you can describe them as?annoyed?or?irritated.?The Premier looked annoyed but calm. ...a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour's dog.?Typically, someone is?irritated?by something because it happens constantly or continually. If someone is often irritated, you can describe them as?irritable.
angry通常指某人在某種特定情況下的情緒或感覺(jué)。經(jīng)常生氣的人可被形容為bad-tempered：She's a bad-tempered young lady（她是個(gè)愛(ài)發(fā)脾氣的少婦）。如果某人非常生氣，則可用furious形容：Senior police officers are furious at the blunder (高級(jí)警官們因?yàn)檫@個(gè)大錯(cuò)大發(fā)雷霆）。若不是特別生氣，可用annoyed或irritated形容：The Premier looked annoyed but calm（總理看起來(lái)有些惱火，但還是很鎮(zhèn)靜），a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour's dog（被鄰居家狗的叫聲搞得很煩躁的男人）。通常某人會(huì)因某事持續(xù)或不斷發(fā)生感到irritated。如果某人常常發(fā)脾氣，則可用irritable形容。
[not before noun] ( informal , especially NAmE ) angry 指憤怒或發(fā)怒：
He got mad and walked out.
他大動(dòng)肝火，憤然離去。
She's mad at me for being late.
我遲到了，她非常生氣。
Mad is the usual word for ‘a(chǎn)ngry’ in informal American English. When used in British English, especially in the phrase go mad , it can mean ‘very angry’.
〔辨析〕在非正式的美國(guó)英語(yǔ)中，mad為表示憤怒或發(fā)怒（angry）的常用詞；在英國(guó)英語(yǔ)中，尤其是在短語(yǔ)go mad中，mad可表示非常氣憤：
Dad'll go mad when he sees what you've done.
父親看到你的所作所為會(huì)非常氣憤。
‘Go mad’ can also mean ‘go crazy’ or ‘get very excited’.
go mad也可指發(fā)瘋、發(fā)狂或激動(dòng)起來(lái)。
feeling or showing anger and surprise because you think that you or sb else has been treated unfairly 指因遭遇或見(jiàn)到不公平的事而憤慨、憤怒。
記憶技巧：in 不 + dign 值得，有價(jià)值的；高貴的 + ant …的 → 否認(rèn)他人人格自尊、個(gè)人價(jià)值導(dǎo)致的生氣
She was very indignant at the way she had been treated.
她對(duì)自己受到的待遇大為光火。
( rather informal , especially BrE ) rather angry or annoyed 指十分憤怒、惱怒：
I was quite cross with him for being late.
我因他遲到而十分生氣。
〔辨析〕This word is often used by or to children.
該詞常為兒童用語(yǔ)或?qū)和挠谜Z(yǔ)。
very angry 指極其憤怒的、暴怒的：
irate customers
憤怒的顧客
an irate letter
言辭激憤的信
〔辨析〕Irate is not usually followed by a preposition.
irate后通常不跟介詞：
She was irate with me/about it.
