Rankle

(a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

(a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.

(v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

编辑:齐克

• The dimensions of the Brys' ball-room must rankle: you may be sure she knows 'em as well as if she'd been there last night with a yard-measure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Majuba Hill was made to rankle in the memory of the English people by a persistent press campaign. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Emanuel's soul rankled a chronic suspicion that I knew both Greek and Latin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The suspected prior attachment rankled in his heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It rankles in you, rusts in you, and pisons you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Comparatively few English people have even heard of this Treaty of Limerick; in Ireland it rankles to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Its remembrance rankles still in the bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those brave men who lost the day. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I tell you it rankles in you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

手打:特伦斯