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发音：[ˈɪrɪˌteɪt]
例句：
- To irritate someone means to do something that annoys or bothers them, causing them to feel uncomfortable or angry. It can be something as simple as making an annoying noise or as complex as constantly interrupting someone when they are speaking.
- Platformer’s reporting says that Musk was upset that his tweet about the Super Bowl had received fewer responses than President Biden’s tweet about the Super Bowl, which irritated him.
- The musician and record producer William Wittman still feels irritated when he remembers dining at Patsy’s, an Italian restaurant in Manhattan, during a hot summer day in the early 1980s.
- Australian lawmakers have grown impatient with the submarine program’s delays and have become irritated by the Australian government’s unwillingness to let its highly paid U.S. advisers answer questions.
- Some people have become irritated by the company’s slow marketing efforts, which are overseen by Mr. Ryan, and by the inconclusive talks about acquiring another large news organization.
- LeBron James and other players were irritated about the condensed schedule, which led to questions about why many star players went down with injuries across the league.
- During this subtest, the chatbot’s tendency to provide very detailed, show-off responses started to irritate me, and I found the “stop generating response” button of the test software interface helpful.
解释：
- Irritate这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to cause people to feel uncomfortable or angry”这一含义，即“使烦恼/刺激/激怒”，与annoy/bother/aggravate这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- People tend to feel frustrated and irritated when they encounter obstacles that hinder their goals, but this can motivate them to use their energy and skills to overcome those barriers.（当人们遇到阻碍他们目标的障碍时，他们往往会感到沮丧和烦躁，但这可以激励他们利用他们的精力和技能来克服这些障碍。）
–Science - When attempting to create sail designs using traditional computer tools, the process of adjusting numbers to alter the sail’s shape proved to be too irritating for the designer.（当尝试使用传统的计算机工具创建帆设计时，调整数字以改变帆的形状的过程对设计师来说太烦人。）
–Technology - Users of Truth Social have grown increasingly irritated with the platform’s low-quality advertisements, which has led them to voice their concerns to former President Trump.（Truth Social的用户对该平台的低质量广告越来越愤怒，这导致他们向前总统特朗普表达了他们的担忧。）
–News - Including bothersome prompts within Windows 10 to encourage users to switch to Edge is not a clear and effective strategy, as it is likely to irritate users rather than convince them to switch browsers.（在Windows 10中包含令人烦恼的提示以鼓励用户切换到Edge并不是一个明确有效的策略，因为它可能会激怒用户而不是说服他们切换浏览器。）
–Technology - Neymar, a professional soccer player, acknowledges that his style of play can be either appealing or irritating to people, depending on the situation.（内马尔是一名职业足球运动员，他承认他的比赛风格可能会吸引人或激怒人们，这取决于情况。）
–Sports - The changes to baseball rules have provoked frustrating and irritating among some traditionalist baseball fans, including Alva Noë, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of the book “Infinite Baseball.”（棒球规则的变化引起了一些传统主义棒球迷的沮丧和恼怒，这其中就包括阿尔瓦·诺埃，他是加州大学伯克利分校哲学教授以及《无限棒球》一书的作者。）
–Sports
