「英語單詞辨析」怒，何故？

angry， mad， indignant， cross， irate

All these words describe people

feeling and/or showing anger。

以上各詞均形容人憤怒和/或發怒。

A。angry

feeling or showing anger

指憤怒、發怒

Please don‘t be angry with me。

請別生我的氣。

Thousands of angry

demonstrators filled the square。

廣場上聚滿了成千上萬的憤怒示

威者。

B。mad

［not before noun］（informal，

especially North American English）

angry

指憤怒或發怒

He got mad and walked out。

他大動肝火，憤然離去。

She’s mad at me for being late。

我遲到了，她非常生氣。

Mad is the usual word for ‘angry’ innformal American English。 When used in British English， especially in the phrase go mad， it can mean ‘very angry’。

在非正式的美國英語中， mad為表

示憤怒或發怒（angry）的常用詞；在英國英語中，尤其是在短語go

mad中， mad可表示非常氣憤

Dad‘ll go mad when he sees

what you’ve done。

父親看到你的所作所為會非常氣

憤。

＇Go mad＇ can also mean ＇go crazy＇ or

＇get very excited＇。

go mad也可指發瘋、發狂或激動起

來。

C。indignant

feeling or showing anger and

surprise because you think that you

or sb else has been treated unfairly

指因遭遇或見到不公平的事而憤慨、憤

怒：She was very indignant at the

way she had been treated。

她對自己受到的待遇大為光火。

D。cross

（rather informal， especially British

English） rather angry or annoyed

指十分憤怒、惱怒

I was quite cross with him for being late。

我因他遲到而十分生氣。

This word is often used by or to

children。

該詞常為兒童用語或對兒童的用語。

E。irate

very angry

指極其憤怒的、暴怒的

irate customers

憤怒的顧客

an irate letter

言辭激憤的信

rate is not usually followed by a

preposition。

irate後通常不跟介詞

（錯誤示範） She was irate with

me/about it。

PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS

to look/sound/seem angry/mad/

indignant/cross

They were angry/indignant/crossthat they hadn＇t been invited。

It really makes me angry/mad/

cross。

to get angry/mad/cross

to be angry/mad/indignant/crossabout/at sth

angry/cross with sb （for doing sth）