Liz was indignant at the way her child had been treated.
利兹对自己孩子受到的待遇非常气愤。
an indignant reply
愤慨的回复
—indignantlyadverbadv
‘Of course I didn’t tell her!’ Sasha said indignantly.
“我当然没有告诉她!”萨莎气愤地说。
Examples from the Corpus
indignant• At the moment people are being indignant about literarybiographies and the nasty things they are saying about their subjects.• John would be indignant and angry on my behalf but it would change things if he knew.• Eric was indignant at being told he would have to wait two weeks for an appointment.• Jess felt faintly indignant at the remark.• He was indignant his comrades had not shot her on the spot.• Grandfather's always writing indignantletters to the newspaper.• There were indignantshouts from the priests.• He had sent it to a top producer at SpellingEntertainment who was indignant that Hein had the gall to plagiarize.• I began to dislike her; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she'd spoken to me like that.• The members of the branch were indignant that the government should have planted two spies among them.
indignant at/about• It saw only the incomprehensibleinaction of the Army of the Potomac, and was indignant at it.• At the moment people are being indignant about literary biographies and the nasty things they are saying about their subjects.• This makes it harder to waxindignant at the ideas being canvassed in Washington.• Jess felt faintly indignant at the remark.
Originindignant
(1500-1600)Latin present participle of indignari, from indignus“unworthy”
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, feel, look, sound憤慨;感到氣憤;看上去憤怒;聽起來憤慨➤become, get, grow, wax變得憤怒◇She waxes indignant if anyone tries to contradict her.如果有人想反駁,她就會憤憤不平。➤make sb使某人感到憤慨ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常憤慨▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些惱怒▸➤righteously義憤填膺◇'He deserves to be punished,' she protested, righteously indignant.“他應該受到懲罰。”她義憤填膺地抗議道。PREPOSITION➤about, over對⋯感到憤慨◇She became rather indignant over suggestions that she had lied.有人暗示她說謊,她頗為憤慨。➤at因⋯憤慨◇They were quite indignant at his remarks.他們對他的言論十分惱火。