| 词组 | pique |
| 释义 | pique When the verb pique is used in passive constructions and is followed by a preposition, the preposition is usually at or by. Either preposition is possible when the meaning of pique is "to irritate": • ... she had been piqued at my discovery of her in one of her most secret hiding-places —W. H. Hudson, Green Mansions, 1904 • The Swiss will be piqued at the U.S. because of the higher tariff — Wall Street Jour., 30 July 1954 • ... he seemed piqued, too, by what he considered to be a premature disclosure of the plan —Trevor Arm-brister, Saturday Evening Post, 12 Feb. 1966 • ... I think she was piqued ... by my victory — George P. Elliott, Esquire, March 1970 When pique means "to excite or arouse," the preposition of choice is by: • One's interest is piqued but not captured by the chronicle of this weak-willed man —N. Y. Times, 25 May 1952 In an old sense, now much less often used, pique means "to pride" and is followed, like pride, by either on or upon: • ... Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • Horace Winterton piqued himself on this —Sylvia Townsend Warner, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 1952 See also peak, peek, pique. |
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