詞彙精選：rage的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

憤怒，情緒激動 [U,C]

例句：

When I asked him to pay me what he owed, he went purple with rage.

當我向他討債時，他憤怒得臉色發紫。

例句：

He was red-cheeked with rage.

他氣得滿臉通紅。

激烈，猛烈；狂暴，肆虐 [U]

例句：

Don't control the tears of rage.

任憑眼淚肆虐。

例句：

Land never felt the rage of blundering plough.

土地從來感受不到自然力粗笨的犁的肆虐。

v.

發怒，動怒 [I,T]

例句：

The thought of the way she had been treated made her rage.

她一想到她所受的待遇就生氣。

例句：

Inside, Frannie was raging.

內心裏，弗蘭尼怒不可遏。

流行，風行 [I]

例句：

Flu raged throughout the city.

流行性感冒風行全市。

例句：

Small cars are the rage now.

小型汽車現在很流行。

二、詞義辨析：

anger,indignation,fury,rage,wrath

這些名詞均含“憤怒”之意。anger普通用詞，通常指因受到侮辱、損害、指責或頂撞等而引起的憤怒。indignation較正式用詞，指出於正義或對不公正之事而發出的憤怒。 fury語氣最強，指極端的氣憤，甚至達到發瘋的程度。rage側重突然而猛列發作，難以控制的大怒。wrath文學用詞，含義與anger相近，但語氣強，含欲加懲罰或報復的意味。

三、參考例句：

Let the storm rage on.

讓風暴怒吼吧。

He was red-cheeked with rage.

他因盛怒而滿臉通紅。

His internal rage drives him crazy.

他內心的憤怒使他瘋狂。

All I feel is hate and rage.

我的所有感受就是憎恨與憤怒。

Small cars are the rage now.

小型汽車現在很流行。

Resentment and rage seethe within him.

怨恨與憤怒在他的內心翻騰。

Land never felt the rage of blundering plough.

土地從來感受不到自然力粗笨的犁的肆虐。

Rage and fury are bad to the liver.

勿盛怒多言，免動火傷肝。

His rage was soon calmed down by the rustic peace.

鄉村的寧靜很快就使他的怒氣平靜下來。

He was boiling over with rage at his humiliation.

他發現自己蒙受恥辱，不禁勃然大怒。