| 词组 | annoy |
| 释义 | annoy Since early in this century, some commentators have been trying to help us with the prepositions that go with annoyed, the past participle of this verb. Their distinctions are various and are based on such considerations as whether one is or feels annoyed, whether the annoyer is an action, thing, or person, and whether annoyed means "pestered." As is usual with such attempts, actual usage proves more complex than the proffered distinctions. Here are some examples of the common prepositions, with, at, and by, and the less common about: • ... annoyed the British in Philadelphia with a satirical ballad —American Guide Series: Pennsylvania, 1940 • ... if she annoys him with her watchfulness —H. M. Parshley, translation of Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1952 • ... get greatly annoyed with anything in it that happens to interfere —Elmer Davis, But We Were Bom Free, 1954 • ... annoyed about a trembling hand —Current Biography, December 1964 • ... annoyed at the waste of it all —Alan Rich, New York, 8 Feb. 1971 • ... became annoyed at newspaper reports —John Barkham, Saturday Rev., 13 Feb. 1954 • My hostess was annoyed at me —Maude Phelps Hutchins, Epoch, Fall 1947 • ... are often puzzled and sometimes annoyed by the ways of other peoples —William A. Parker, Understanding Other Cultures, 1954 • ... she was disturbed and next annoyed by the silence —Jean Stafford, Children Are Bored on Sunday, 1953 • ... much annoyed by the wolves that still existed in Florida then —Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, 1947 • He was annoyed by the cold, the starvation, and chiefly by the coarseness of the dying soldiers — Morris Bishop, Saturday Rev., 11 Dec. 1954 • Though annoyed by the tone of the Tringsbys' letters —Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day, 1949 • ... he was distinctly annoyed by Clara's advent — Elinor Wylie, Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard, 1928 Annoy and annoyed are followed by constructions other than those consisting of preposition and noun. A sample: • It annoys me to have smokers blow smoke in my face —H. Thompson Fillmer et al., Patterns of Language, Level F (textbook), 1977 • ... I was annoyed to lose it —Nora Wain, The House of Exile, 1933 • Some of his friends were annoyed to recognize themselves in the latter book —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 • Annoyed that the university administrators had publicly aired their views —Current Biography, January 1966 • "It's annoying that we have to rush...." —Adventures Here and There (5th grade textbook), 1950 |
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