chafe

英 [tʃeɪf]

美 [tʃeɪf]

v.  擦痛; 擦得红肿; (尤指因受限制而)恼怒，烦恼，焦躁

过去式：chafed　现在分词：chafing　过去分词：chafed　第三人称单数：chafes　复数：chafes　

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BNC.20732 / COCA.15894

牛津词典

verb

• 擦痛；擦得红肿
  if skin chafes , or if sth chafes it, it becomes sore because the thing is rubbing against it
  1. Her wrists chafed where the rope had been.
     她的手腕上绳子勒过的地方都磨红了。
  2. The collar was far too tight and chafed her neck.
     衣领特别紧，把她脖子磨痛了。
• （尤指因受限制而）恼怒，烦恼，焦躁
  to feel annoyed and impatient about sth, especially because it limits what you can do
  1. He soon chafed at the restrictions of his situation.
     他很快便因为处处受到限制而感到恼火。

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (皮肤)擦破；（使）擦伤
  If your skinchafesoris chafedby something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
  1. My shorts were chafing my thighs...
     我的短裤把大腿磨得生疼。
  2. She turned him in the bed so that the sheets wouldn't chafe his skin into sores...
     她帮他翻了个身，免得他生褥疮。
  3. His wrists began to chafe against the cloth strips binding them...
     他的手腕开始被捆绑的布带磨得很痛。
  4. The messenger bent and scratched at his knee where the strapping chafed.
     送信人弯下腰来，挠着膝部被绑腿磨红的地方。
• VERB (因…)生气，恼怒
  If youchafe atsomething such as a restriction, you feel annoyed about it.
  1. He had chafed at having to take orders from another...
     他对于不得不听命于人很恼火。
  2. He was chafing under the company's new ownership.
     他在新老板的手下工作得很不开心。

英英释义

noun

• anger produced by some annoying irritation
  Synonym:annoyancevexation
• soreness and warmth caused by friction
  1. he had a nasty chafe on his knee

verb

• warm by rubbing, as with the hands
• cause friction
  1. my sweater scratches
  Synonym:rubfrayfretscratch
• tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
  1. This leash chafes the dog's neck
  Synonym:excoriate
• cause annoyance in
  1. Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me
  2. It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
  Synonym:annoyragget tobotherget atirritaterilenarknettlegravelvexdevil
• feel extreme irritation or anger
  1. He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation
• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
  Synonym:gallfret

双语例句

• You have built into this reality the most wonderful gift of time, and you chafe against it sometimes.
  你们已经将这个时代最美好的礼物变成了现实。
• He would not chafe at the absence of routine chores.
  他不需介意无日常事务可处理。
• While transformational chief executives and management consultants chafe at the resistance they encounter, the problem is not just the lethargy of subordinates and the scale of their personal investment in established processes.
  尽管心向革新的首席执行官和管理顾问对遭遇的抵制感到恼火，但问题不仅仅在于下属们的慵懒懈怠以及他们对既定流程已投入个人努力的大小。
• The poor chafe at inequality, corruption, environmental ruin and land-grabs by officials.
  穷人们为不平等，腐败，环境污染以及土地被掠夺而恼怒。
• It doesn't matter if the kiss is sloppy, the rain is causing your clothes to chafe against your body or one of you falls into a puddle.
  你们的吻是否很潮湿，大雨是否导致你的衣服摩檫你的身体让你难受或者你们中的一个人是否掉进了泥潭，这些都没有关系！
• She must suspect, and guess, and chafe, and bear it all alone.
  她只能怀疑，猜测，焦躁，独自忍受着这一切。
• You might chafe under restrictions and responsibilities that you have for others, and this feeling makes you want to rebel or be free of whatever ties you down.
  你可能不满于受束缚，因对别人的责任而感到焦躁，这样，你产生逆反心理，想摆脱束缚。
• He was chafing under the company's new ownership.
  他在新老板的手下工作得很不开心。
• They chafe at the imprisonment.
  他们因被监禁而恼怒。
• The different circles of music, if they are not Dante's, none the less reveal a prison system in which most fed at ease but whose constraints, on the contrary, painfully chafe others.
  不同的音乐圈子也就像监狱体制一样，绝大多数人在其中感到平安无事，但是他们却对别人进行痛苦的折磨。