aggravate

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 aggravatus，aggravare (“给……增重，使变差，使烦恼”)的过去分词，源自ad (“到”) + gravare (“使变重”)，源自gravis (“重的”)。参见grave，对比aggrieve、aggrege。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

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动词

aggravate (第三人称单数简单现在时 aggravates，现在分词 aggravating，一般过去时及过去分词 aggravated)

1. 使冒犯性增加 （自16世纪）
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版于 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]，第 23 页，第 2 列:

     Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,
     With a foule Traitors name ſtuffe I thy throte,
     And wiſh (ſo pleaſe my Soueraigne) ere I moue,
     What my tong ſpeaks, my right drawn ſword may proue

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   • 1709 Joseph Addison, The Tatler

     The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.

2. (引申) 使恶化，使变差 （自16世纪）
   • 1726, Homer, [William Broome], transl., “Book XVI”, 出自 The Odyssey of Homer. […], 第 IV 卷, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     to aggravate my woes.

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   • 1837, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

     […] to aggravate the horrors of the scene

3. (现罕用) 使程度/重量增加 （自16世纪）

   He aggravated the story.

   他把事情夸大了。

4. (弃用) 使某人负担加重 （16–18世纪）
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 28:

     In order to lighten the crown still further, they aggravated responsibility on ministers of state.

5. (现基本用于口语) 激怒 （自16世纪）
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 85:

     Ben Bella was aggravated by having to express himself in French because the Egyptians were unable to understand his Arabic.

近义词

• (使变差)： heighten, intensify, increase, magnify, exaggerate, exacerbate
• (激怒)： provoke, irritate, exasperate

反义词

• (使变差)： alleviate, mitigate

相关词汇

• aggravation

拓展阅读

• “aggravate”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302
• “aggravate”，The Century Dictionary […]，New York, N.Y.：The Century Co.，1911，OCLC 867766587

意大利语

动词

aggravate

1. aggravare 的第二人称复数现在时直陈式
2. aggravare 的第二人称复数命令式
3. aggravato 的阴性复数

拉丁语

动词

aggravāte

1. aggravō 的第二人称复数现在时主动态命令式