词汇精选：rage的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

愤怒，情绪激动 [U,C]

例句：

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

当我向他讨债时，他愤怒得脸色发紫。

例句：

He was red-cheeked with rage.

他气得满脸通红。

激烈，猛烈；狂暴，肆虐 [U]

例句：

Don't control the tears of rage.

任凭眼泪肆虐。

例句：

Land never felt the rage of blundering plough.

土地从来感受不到自然力粗笨的犁的肆虐。

v.

发怒，动怒 [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气。

例句：

Inside, Frannie was raging.

内心里，弗兰尼怒不可遏。

流行，风行 [I]

例句：

Flu raged throughout the city.

流行性感冒风行全市。

例句：

Small cars are the rage now.

小型汽车现在很流行。

二、词义辨析：

anger,indignation,fury,rage,wrath

这些名词均含“愤怒”之意。anger普通用词，通常指因受到侮辱、损害、指责或顶撞等而引起的愤怒。indignation较正式用词，指出于正义或对不公正之事而发出的愤怒。 fury语气最强，指极端的气愤，甚至达到发疯的程度。rage侧重突然而猛列发作，难以控制的大怒。wrath文学用词，含义与anger相近，但语气强，含欲加惩罚或报复的意味。

三、参考例句：

Let the storm rage on.

让风暴怒吼吧。

He was red-cheeked with rage.

他因盛怒而满脸通红。

His internal rage drives him crazy.

他内心的愤怒使他疯狂。

All I feel is hate and rage.

我的所有感受就是憎恨与愤怒。

Small cars are the rage now.

小型汽车现在很流行。

Resentment and rage seethe within him.

怨恨与愤怒在他的内心翻腾。

Land never felt the rage of blundering plough.

土地从来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，免动火伤肝。

His rage was soon calmed down by the rustic peace.

乡村的宁静很快就使他的怒气平静下来。

He was boiling over with rage at his humiliation.

他发现自己蒙受耻辱，不禁勃然大怒。