pique.
赌气,皮克,匹克,比格
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v.verb · 有主动词
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piqued, piqu·ing.
- ›to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride: She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.
- ›to wound.
- ›to excite: Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.
- ›to arouse an emotion or provoke to action: to pique someone to answer a challenge.
- ›Archaic. to pride.
v.verb · 无主动词
- 1.
piqued, piqu·ing.
- ›to arouse pique in someone: an action that piqued when it was meant to soothe.
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a feeling of irritation or resentment, as from a wound to pride or self-esteem: to be in a pique.
- Obsolete. a state of irritated feeling between persons.
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Examples
Their pique could only have been exacerbated by the fact that the law required public disclosure.
He had wanted the romance of being what he once was, something I was denying him in my pique.
How much might such spirited competitions pique the interest of stateside TV audiences?
He is a mild-mannered and generous guy, not the kind of person prone to fits of pique or rage.
This loud display of pique lasted about a week before Fallin quietly reversed herself.
But like the committee hearing, it was just a nasty show of pique.
Except for a bit of petulance directed toward Stephanopoulos and a bit of pique directed at Huntsman, Romney maintained his cool.
The Daily News, in referring to this, suggests that "peacock temper" was a misprint for "pique, or temper."
I fear my manner showed my pique a trifle, for I did not see her anywhere about when I left after breakfast.
Ellen Morris accepted an invitation to Petersburg, ere the angry pique, aroused by Lynn's reproaches, passed off.