You can also irk and vex someone. So, something that gets your goat is irksome or vexing.

你可以“irk（激怒）”和“vex（惹恼）”某人。因此，让你生气的事情令人讨厌或烦恼的。

With a tiny jerk of the head, Snape seemed to flick off an irksome fly.

斯内普微微抽动一下，像赶走一只恶心的苍蝇。

The problem is particularly irksome for sites dedicated to offering reviews, such as Yelpand TripAdvisor.

对于专门提供点评的网站，如Yelp和猫途鹰，问题更为棘手。

This pocket-picking would be less irksome if something useful came of it.

这种偷窃行为要能干点实事可能就不会这么招人厌恶。

But if America does come close to overheating, then a reluctance to spend elsewhere may be less irksome than usual, as demand-starved countries serve as a release valve for the pressure building up at home.

但如果美国经济真的接近过热，那么不愿在其他地方消费可能不会像往常那样令人讨厌，因为需求匮乏的国家充当国内积聚的压力的阀门。

If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.

如果他只法忍受聊的生活而决心当一个画家，以图挣脱烦闷的枷锁，这可以理解的，其平常的事；但问题在于，我觉得他绝对不一个平常的人。

While he was yet nearly a mile from the house his mother exhibited signs of restlessness under the constraint of being borne along, as if his arms were irksome to her.

大约在离开屋子还有一英里的时候，他母亲因为一直被紧紧抱着，显出焦躁不安的迹象，仿佛他的两条胳膊令她感到厌烦。

Most of their fellow students seemed glad that they were being shepherded from class to class by teachers, but Harry found it very irksome.

大部分同学似乎很高兴有老师护送他们从一个教室到另一个教室，但哈利觉得非常厌烦。

To be left to pass the evening by herself was irksome to her at any time, and this evening it was more irksome than usual by reason of the excitements of the past hours.

论何时，让她夜晚一人独守空房都烦闷的，再加上今晚几小时前发生的让人激动不已的事情，让这种感觉比平日更甚。

So, something that gets your goat is irksome or vexing.

因此，“get your goat”（惹你生气）指的令人恼火或烦扰的事情。

You can imagine that this could drive both of these irksome, not great behaviors.

你可以想象，这可能会促使这两种令人不快、不太好的行为。

But yes, some people do find it irksome.

但确实，有些人会觉得这很烦人。

Irksome of life and too long lingering night.

生活令人厌倦，漫漫长夜难熬。

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries, was there no way of keeping it discovered?

在所有令人烦躁、沮丧、恼火的发现中，难道就没有办法让它一直被发现吗？

That day was an irksome time at Endelstow vicarage.

那天在恩德尔斯托牧师住宅一段令人厌烦的时光。

In public schools, however, religion, confounded with irksome ceremonies and unreasonable restraints, assumes the most ungracious aspect: not the sober austere one that commands respect whilst it inspires fear; but a ludicrous cast, that serves to point a pun.

然而，在公立学校，宗教与令人厌烦的仪式和不合理的限制混为一谈，呈现出最不友善的一面：不那种既令人恐惧又博得尊重的严肃严肃的宗教；但一个可笑的演员阵容，可以用来指出双关语。

I suffer from the want of snuff, as my nose is irksome in consequence of the shock I had last night, and I am quite disconcerted by my failure to satisfy the never-tiring wants of that nose of mine.

由于昨晚的震惊，我的鼻子很烦人，所以我很想吸鼻烟，而我却因未能满足我鼻子永不疲倦的需求而感到非常不安。

But it is irksome enough for me to do my writing on the veranda at the Creek, in the midst of the commotion of grove and stock, with constant interruptions to give advice about broken machinery and escaped cows.

但在小溪的阳台上写作已经够烦人的，在树林和牲畜的喧嚣中，经常被打扰，就损坏的机器和逃跑的奶牛提出建议。

Scared to Death of Death, The Important Things We Postpone by Joshua Fields Milburn of theminimalist.com No one wants to discuss death, and yet we're all going to die, obviously, which makes for an irksome paradox.

《对死亡的度恐惧：我们推迟的重要事项》——约书亚·菲尔兹·米尔本， 来自TheMinimalists.com。 人愿意谈论死亡，然而我们终将一死， 这显而易见的事实，这便构成一种令人困扰的矛盾。 更糟糕的， 我们常常拒绝讨论围绕死亡的重要话题， 比如葬礼安排、火化、生前遗嘱等。

Her days had lately been so filled with adventure that the placid immobility of the top-back room was not only irksome but maddening, and her mother's hasty and troubled breathing came between her and her thoughts.

近来，她的日子充满冒险， 以至于这间顶楼后房平静波的状态不仅令她烦躁， 更让她抓狂。而母亲急促不安的呼吸声， 又在她与思绪之间横生阻隔。