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pique

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pique1 /piːk/ noun [uncountableU]   → peke, peak, peek
1  ANNOYa feeling of being annoyed or upset, especially because someone has ignored you or insulted you 〔尤指因被人忽视或侮辱而〕不悦，生气
 He stormed out in a fit of pique.
他气呼呼地冲了出去。
2. (also piqué)TIM a type of material made of cotton, silk, or rayon 凹凸织物〔一种用棉纱、丝或人造丝制成的织物〕
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pique• You have to go beyond that, transcend revenge and pique and cruelty and cowardice.• In a fit of pique, she'd included some wild canvases in the last show.• She'd lied about it out of pique, but now it seemed to be turning to her advantage.• In July, in a fit of progressive pique, I considered bolting for Nader.• But when he had asked her to marry him, she had declined out of nothing more than pique.• Yellow pique with little cap sleeves.
pique2 verb  
1  [transitiveT]ANNOY to make someone feel annoyed or upset, especially by ignoring them or making them look stupid 〔尤指忽视或愚弄某人而〕使生气，激怒
 Privately, Zarich was piqued that his offer was rejected.
提议遭到拒绝，扎里克私下里很气愤。
n Grammar
Pique is usually passive in this meaning.
2  pique your interest/curiosity especially American EnglishAmEINTERESTED to make you feel interested in something or someone 激起你的兴趣/好奇心
 She was hostile to him, which piqued his curiosity.
她对他有敌意，这激起了他的好奇心。
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pique your interest/curiosity• But something innkeeper Darlene Elders said over breakfast piqued their interest.• Then he told me something that piqued my curiosity.• But three recent cases are piquing our interest, and analysts say they may signal new and more venal form of corruption.• What we want to do first, though, is to pique your interest by sharing some of the accomplishments.• The tour of the hospital piqued her interest in studying medicine.• But organization is not the arena that piques my interest most.
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pique• She was uncompromisingly hostile to him, which piqued and fascinated him.• London's leading pair, as if piqued by this, turned 30 September into the longest afternoon.• From the start my interest was most piqued by Valadon and Meurent, perhaps because I identified with them the most.• But my comment seemed to have piqued Lleland.• But organization is not the arena that piques my interest most.• But three recent cases are piquing our interest, and analysts say they may signal new and more venal form of corruption.• Freshfields's new marbled offices off Fleet Street would pique the ego of the grandest City banker.• What we want to do first, though, is to pique your interest by sharing some of the accomplishments.
Origin pique2
(1500-1600) French piquer “to prick, sting”
pique1 nounpique2 verb →n GRAMMAR1
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