Ruffle

(verb.) pleat or gather into a ruffle; 'ruffle the curtain fabric'.

(verb.) disturb the smoothness of; 'ruffle the surface of the water'.

(verb.) erect or fluff up; 'the bird ruffled its feathers'.

(verb.) trouble or vex; 'ruffle somebody's composure'.

(verb.) discompose; 'This play is going to ruffle some people'; 'She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues'.

编辑:利拉

• Unless I have done anything,' said Little Dorrit, rather alarmed, and meaning anything calculated to crack varnish and ruffle surface. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Snakes act on the same principle which makes the hen ruffle her feathers and expand her wings when a dog approaches her chickens. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• To do him justice, he would have shared his prize with her to whom he owed itbut that was never allowed: to insist, was to ruffle her for the evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The fact is, that Roylands' admiration of the portrait seemed to ruffle Caliphronas very much, and quite altered his usual nonchalance of manner. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Cheerfulness and alertness seemed to return to him, and a quietness which no insult or injury could ruffle seemed to possess him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They leave Mr. Tulkinghorn, without a ruffle on the surface of his unfathomable depths, drinking his old wine, and go down into the streets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• An exhausted composure, a worn-out placidity, an equanimity of fatigue not to be ruffled by interest or satisfaction, are the trophies of her victory. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In this sign I read a ruffled mood. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Don't be ruffled by your occupation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Madame's brow had not been ruffled during the scene--her lips had not dropped one sharply-accented word. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He had the special peculiarity of some birds of prey, that when he knitted his brow, his ruffled crest stood highest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She said it so finally, and in such an undiscussible way, that Mr. Pumblechook, though in a condition of ruffled dignity, could not protest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But he will be very handsomely dressed in a court suit, with ruffles, and his hair a little powdered, like Mr. Wroughton at Covent Garden. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• More elation and more anxiety; an excitement that steals the hours away fast, and a trouble that ruffles their course. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He sat on a bench, with his hoops and ruffles and high powdered head, his point laced lappets, &c. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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