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

你也可以“irk（激怒）”和“vex（惹恼）”某人。因此，让你生气事情是令人讨厌或烦恼。

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

斯内普微微抽动了一下，像是赶走了一只恶心苍蝇。

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.

这种偷窃行为要是能干点实事可能就不会这么招人厌恶了。

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，因为需求匮乏国家充当了释放国内积聚压力阀门。

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.

如果他只是法忍受聊生活而决心当一个画家，以图挣脱烦闷枷锁，这是可以理解，也是极其平常事；但是问题在于，我觉得他绝对不是一个平常人。

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，他母亲因为一直被紧紧抱着，显出焦躁不安迹象，仿佛他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，让她夜晚一人独守空房都是烦闷，再加上今晚几小前发生让人激动不已事情，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）指是令人恼火或烦扰事情。

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是一段令人厌烦光。

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，宗教与令人厌烦仪式和不合理限制混为一谈，呈现出最不友善一面：不是那种既令人恐惧又博得尊重严肃严肃宗教；但是一个可笑演员阵容，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.

由于昨晚震惊，我鼻子很烦人，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.

但在小溪阳台上写作已经够烦人了，在树林和牲畜喧嚣中，经常被打扰，就损坏机器和逃跑奶牛提出建议。

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.

《对死亡极度恐惧：我们推迟重要事项》——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， 这是显而易见事实，这便构成了一种令人困扰矛盾。 更糟糕是， 我们常常拒绝讨论围绕死亡重要话题， 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，她日子充满了冒险， 以至于这间顶楼后房平静波状态不仅令她烦躁， 更是让她抓狂。而母亲急促不安呼吸声， 又在她与思绪之间横生阻隔。