c. 1300, from Old French ire "anger, wrath, violence" (11c.), from Latin ira "anger, wrath, rage, passion," from PIE root *eis- (1), forming various words denoting "passion" cognates: Greek hieros "filled with the divine, holy," oistros "gadfly," originally "thing causing madness;" Sanskrit esati "drives on," yasati "boils;" Avestan aesma "anger;" Lithuanian aistra "violent passion").
Old English irre in a similar sense is from an adjective irre "wandering, straying, angry," cognate with Old Saxon irri "angry," Old High German irri "wandering, deranged," also "angry;" Gothic airzeis "astray," and Latin errare "wander, go astray, angry" (see err (v.)).
(cognates: Avestan ae?ma- "anger," Lithuanian aistra "violent passion," Latin ira "anger")
雙語例句
1. Objective : To explore the regulatory mechanism of iron responsive element binding protein ( IRE? BP ) in iron metabolism.
目的: 探索鐵代謝平衡中鐵效應元件結合蛋白 ( IRE -BP ) 的調節機制.
來自互聯網
2. Their ire was directed mainly at the government.
他們的怒火主要指向政府。
來自辭典例句
3. Michael shifted uneasily in his chair. Ire looked at his older brother.
邁克爾在椅子里不安地移動了幾下, 打量著自己的哥哥.
來自教父部分
4. Had I attended to the suggestions of pride and ire I should immediately have left him.
我要是聽從自尊心和忿怒的驅使,那就會立即離開他.
來自辭典例句
5. The boy got ire to the athletic school after a special test.