peeved• A moment later the beautiful young man from Gasset and Lode came out, looking peeved.• It both peeved and amused me.• I dare say a few prizejuries might be peeved at having their judgmentqueried, too.• As the bedroom door closed, Googoladopted a peevedexpression and pretended great interest in a fingernail.• Geoffrey was peeved she spent so much time in Meredith's company.• In any case, Ned's a bitpeeved so you'd better go in and see him.• Murray is peeved that the club did not offer him a new contract.• He was obviously peeved that we'd squared it with the music teacher while he didn't know anything about it.• I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the eggtrick in a recentcolour supp. profile.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, feel, look, seem, sound惱怒;感到生氣;看上去生氣;好像惱怒;聽起來生氣ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極為/頗為/非常生氣◇Elliot was looking very peeved.埃利奧特看上去非常生氣。➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/稍有些惱怒▸➤obviously明顯生氣PREPOSITION➤about對⋯生氣◇Ed was rather peeved about how Martin had handled the situation.埃德對馬丁這樣處理這一情況相當生氣。➤at因⋯惱怒◇He was peeved at her failure to contact him.他因為她未能同他聯繫而生氣。➤by被⋯惹惱◇Maisie seemed peeved by this question.梅茜似乎被這個問題惹惱了。