rankle

ran·kle /ˈræŋkəl/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

UPSETif something rankles, you still remember it angrily because it upset you or annoyed you a lot 使人怀恨；使…怀恨

His comments still rankled.

他的言论仍令人耿耿于怀。

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rankle• Greg's jibe about the dress being like a shroud rankled.• But Tasini was never paid extra for the electronic rights to his writing and this rankled him.• His casual style of dress rankled his superiors.• Suggestions of inferiority have long rankled in a city where image has been an obsession for more than a century.• Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories.• The implications of this remark rankled with us deeply.

Origin rankle

(1300-1400) Old French draoncler, raoncler, from draoncle, raoncle “sore place”, from Latin dracunculus, from draco “dragon”

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