piqued

英 [piːkt]

美 [piːkt]

adj.  (常指为小事)生气的，恼怒的，愠怒的
v.  使愤恨; 使恼怒
pique的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：piqued　

COCA.38751

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （常指为小事）生气的，恼怒的，愠怒的
  If someone ispiqued, they are offended or annoyed, often by something that is not very important.
  1. Granny was astounded and a little piqued, I think, because it had all been arranged without her knowledge...
     奶奶很吃惊，我想还有点儿生气，因为所有这些安排都没有告诉过她。
  2. She wrinkled her nose, piqued by his total lack of enthusiasm.
     她皱皱鼻子，为他毫无热情而感到不快。

双语例句

• I was heartily piqued at the rogue.
  我心里非常不满意这个流氓。
• But in recent years, American women ( and beauty companies), their interest piqued by the BB cream, began to look more closely at Korean multistep skin-care regimens, and they liked what they saw.
  但是近些年，美国女人（以及美国化妆品公司）对韩国的兴趣被BB霜勾了起来，开始更密切地关注韩式多步护肤法，她们对其护肤效果也感到满意。
• Our February update meetings with the major enterprise it players had piqued their interest and led to several follow-ups.
  二月份，我们照常与主要企业信息技术公司举行业务更新会晤，他们的收购兴趣导致了数次后续会谈。
• Their curiosity piqued, they stopped writing.
  他们的好奇心被挑起，停下了手中的笔。
• This was unusual territory for an economist in the1990s, but his interest was piqued while he was researching unemployment at the London School of Economics.
  在20世纪90年代，这对于经济学家而言仍是一个很不寻常的领域。然而，当他还在伦敦经济学院进行失业研究时，就已经对这一领域产生了兴趣。
• His curiosity was piqued by the locked box.
  那个上了锁的箱子引起他的好奇心。
• One day my husband arrived home from the supermarket with a product that piqued my curiosity.
  一天，我丈夫从超市带回的一件产品引起了我的好奇。
• I was piqued by her refusal.
  她的拒绝使我生气。
• Yau tells me that he had been piqued by a magazine comment describing him merely as a restaurateur for the proletariat.
  丘德威告诉我，一份杂志形容他仅仅是一名为工人阶层服务的餐厅老板，这严重伤害到了他的自尊。
• He seemed piqued when I said he could have tried harder.
  当我说他本可以更努力地试一试的时候，他似乎生气了。