irk

verb

/ɜːk/

/ɜːrk/

(formal or literary)

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they irk	/ɜːk/ /ɜːrk/
he / she / it irks	/ɜːks/ /ɜːrks/
past simple irked	/ɜːkt/ /ɜːrkt/
past participle irked	/ɜːkt/ /ɜːrkt/
-ing form irking	/ˈɜːkɪŋ/ /ˈɜːrkɪŋ/

irk somebody (to do something) | it irks somebody that… to annoy somebody使烦恼；激怒
- Her flippant tone irked him.她轻佻的语调使他很生气。
词源Middle English (in the sense ‘be annoyed or disgusted’): perhaps from Old Norse yrkja ‘to work’.