Vexed的意思|Vexed的解释-里氏词典

vexed [vekst]

a. 烦恼的, 焦急的, 生气的, 为难的, 恼怒的, 争论不休的

vexed

[ adj ]

troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances

<adj.all>

harassed working mothers

a harried expression

her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions

the vexed parents of an unruly teenager

causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed

<adj.all>

the vexed issue of priorities

we live in vexed and troubled times

Vex \Vex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vexed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vexing}.] [F. vexer, L. vexare, vexatum, to vex, originally,
to shake, toss, in carrying, v. intens. fr. vehere, vectum,
to carry. See {Vehicle}.]
1. To to?s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
--Pope.

2. To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to
irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to
trouble; to tease. ``I will not vex your souls.'' --Shak.

Then thousand torments vex my heart. --Prior.

3. To twist; to weave. [R.]

Some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom.
--Dryden.

Syn: See {Tease}.

Vexed \Vexed\, a.
1. Annoyed; harassed; troubled.

2. Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed
question.

Gregg said the ditch would also serve to drain runoff that has vexed residents on both sides of the border.
If responsibility for public policy were added on top, the already vexed question of who regulates the regulators would become clamorous. Finding a solution would be equally difficult.
On Friday, he says, he will issue his own draft agreement covering issues that have vexed nations for years.
They are vexed by insensitive bureaucracies.
Japan did not raise the vexed issue of Russian occupation of the Kurile islands.
The stock exchange appears close to breaking the deadlock on the vexed issue of disclosure for market makers.
The Seabrook nuclear power plant began its first atomic chain reaction Tuesday, a pivotal event for a $6 billion project vexed by years of delays, cost overruns and protests that made it a focus of the nation's anti-nuclear movement.
Sen. Lowell Weicker vexed the GOP again, this time as an outsider, with an independent victory for governor of Connecticut. Republican Gov. Kay Orr was trailing, barely, in Nebraska.

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