He sputtered a little, and seemed vexed.

他嘟嘟囔囔，显出有点恼怒。

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

也可以“irk（激怒）”和“vex（惹恼）”某人。因此，让生气的事情是令人讨厌或烦恼的。

" Mr. Bennet, how CAN you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves. "

“我的好老爷，怎么舍得这样糟蹋自己的新生亲生？是在故意叫我气恼，好让自己得意吧。半点也不体谅我的神经衰弱。”

Mr. Darcy's behaviour astonished and vexed her.

达西先生的行为叫她惊奇，也叫她烦恼。

The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right, but he thought the procession must go on now!

皇帝恼羞成怒，因为他知道大家说的是对的。不过他心里想：无论如何也要把这游行大典走完！

But the pretty milkmaid was much too vexed to make any answer.

但是这个美丽的挤牛奶郎，被激怒了，根不理睬他们。

If they dine out, according to vexed restaurateurs, they hardly tip.

恼火的餐馆老板说，如果他们外出就餐，几乎就不给小费。

This vexed me and the lesson always ended in a one-sided boxing match.

这令我十分懊恼，所以，我的训练课总是以对贝拉一通乱捶为结束。

Now, don't be vexed with me, dear, for saying that.

我说这话。可不必介意。

And so it is with the vexed -- and in Britain, highly politicised -- subject of explicit grammar teaching in schools, and its link or otherwise with improved writing ability.

学校里的明晰语法教学这一令人为难的——在英国，它也是高度政治化的——学科，以及它与提高力之间的联系或别的什么，就是这种情况。

" Why, " replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause this question, " we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do" .

路路通发现别人因为自己是法国人竟得出这样的结论，实在有点恼火，他说：" 不错，我们有些法国人确实是会装腔势，但是比起们美国人来那还是小巫见大巫啊！"

Williamson and Holland had a hunch that Little-who at first denied those murders but had run out of appeals by then-might have information on cold cases that had long vexed them.

威廉姆森和霍兰德有这么一点预感——利特尔起初否认那些谋杀，但到那时已经不上诉了——长期困扰他们的悬案，此时可有了一点眉目。

Poor Jane was a good, kind girl. She was much vexed, and said so to Fred. But Fred did not speak to her.

可怜的Jane是个很好的善良的孩。这让她很恼火，她对Fred这样说道。但是Fred没有和她说话。

" My" ! she murmured, " you startled me, and you are cruel. Here I have been composing my soul to do without it, and here you are vexing me with your vain suggestions" .

" 哇！" 她喃喃地说，" 吓了我一跳，可是太残酷了，我在这修心养性，坚持不喝咖啡过日子，可却拿些虚幻的设想来折磨我。"

Yet what most vexes critics of the market is not hefty retail margins but fear that energy firms are making outsized profits elsewhere, for example in power generation.

然而最引发市场批评的并非丰厚的零售利润，而是对源企业在别处—例如在发电领域攫取过多利润的担心。

As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the consciousness of which vexed and embarrassed her, and made her regret that she had said so much, simple as it was.

她说话的当，觉得温特沃思舰长在瞅着她，为此她感到又恼又窘，后悔自己不该说那么多，尽管话很简单。

" Hush! " said Catherine, shutting the inner door. " Don't vex me. Why have you disregarded my request? Did she come across you on purpose? "

“嘘！”凯瑟琳说，关上里面的门。“不要惹我烦恼了。为什么不顾我的请求呢？是她故意找么？”

There would be no independent state created for the Kurdish people after all, for example, a problem that has vexed the region for a century ever since.

例如，库尔德人终究没有建立独立的国家，这个问题自此困扰了该地区一个世纪。

He really tackles a question that has really vexed Catholics for the past few years about what to do about people who divorce and remarry without first getting annulments.

他确实触及到了在过去几年让天主教徒左右为难的问题，比如应该怎样对待离婚和没有离婚就再婚的人们。

At this rate I thought Allgood Newton would never finish his story and Mrs. Hudson would be vexed with me for turning up to dinner half an hour late.

照这种速度讲下去，我想奥尔古德·牛顿永远都讲不完他的故事，而如果我晚半小时回去吃饭的话，我的房东赫德森太太一定会对我很恼火。