angry mad indignant cross irate词语辨析:生气到底用哪个？

angry 、furious、irritated、annoyed、mad 、indignant、 cross   、irate

All these words describe people feeling and/or showing anger. 

以上各词均形容人愤怒和 / 或发怒。

angry

feeling or showing anger 指愤怒、发怒：

~ (at/about/over sth) | ~ with/at sb (about/for sth)

〔辨析〕普通用词，使用范围广泛，通常用于形容人们的情绪、行为、表情、语言等，也用于形容动物或事物，常后接介词 with/at。

Please don't be angry with me.

请别生我的气。

Thousands of angry demonstrators filled the square.

广场上聚满了成千上万的愤怒示威者。

irritated

aroused to impatience or anger 引起烦躁生气

〔辨析〕尤指不断重复的事情或刺激导致烦躁生气

If something irritates you, it keeps annoying you.

Their attitude irritates me...

他们的态度激怒了我。

furious

~ (with sb) | ~ (at sth/sb) | ~ (that…)

very angry 狂怒的；暴怒的

〔辨析〕强调十分愤怒而难以控制的，在句中常作表语，对某人发怒时后接介词 with，对某事发怒时后接介词 at。

She was absolutely furious at having been deceived.

她受了骗，怒不可遏。

He was furious with himself for letting things get so out of control.

他生自己的气，怪自己竟让事情搞得如此不可收拾。

I'm furious that I wasn't told about it.

这事没有跟我说，我十分气愤。

Usage Note:

Angry is normally used to talk about some-one's mood or feelings on a particular occasion. If someone is often angry, you can describe them as bad-tempered. She's a bad-tempered young lady. If someone is very angry, you can describe them as furious. Senior police officers are furious at the blunder. If they are less angry, you can describe them as annoyed or irritated. The Premier looked annoyed but calm. ...a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour's dog. Typically, someone is irritated by something because it happens constantly or continually. If someone is often irritated, you can describe them as irritable.

angry通常指某人在某种特定情况下的情绪或感觉。经常生气的人可被形容为bad-tempered：She's a bad-tempered young lady（她是个爱发脾气的少妇）。如果某人非常生气，则可用furious形容：Senior police officers are furious at the blunder (高级警官们因为这个大错大发雷霆）。若不是特别生气，可用annoyed或irritated形容：The Premier looked annoyed but calm（总理看起来有些恼火，但还是很镇静），a man irritated by the barking of his neighbour's dog（被邻居家狗的叫声搞得很烦躁的男人）。通常某人会因某事持续或不断发生感到irritated。如果某人常常发脾气，则可用irritable形容。

mad

[not before noun] ( informal , especially NAmE ) angry 指愤怒或发怒：

He got mad and walked out.

他大动肝火，愤然离去。

She's mad at me for being late.

我迟到了，她非常生气。

Mad is the usual word for ‘angry’ in informal American English. When used in British English, especially in the phrase go mad , it can mean ‘very angry’.

〔辨析〕在非正式的美国英语中，mad为表示愤怒或发怒（angry）的常用词；在英国英语中，尤其是在短语go mad中，mad可表示非常气愤：

Dad'll go mad when he sees what you've done.

父亲看到你的所作所为会非常气愤。

‘Go mad’ can also mean ‘go crazy’ or ‘get very excited’.

go mad也可指发疯、发狂或激动起来。

indignant

feeling or showing anger and surprise because you think that you or sb else has been treated unfairly 指因遭遇或见到不公平的事而愤慨、愤怒。

记忆技巧：in 不 + dign 值得，有价值的；高贵的 + ant …的 → 否认他人人格自尊、个人价值导致的生气

She was very indignant at the way she had been treated.

她对自己受到的待遇大为光火。

cross

( rather informal , especially BrE ) rather angry or annoyed 指十分愤怒、恼怒：

I was quite cross with him for being late.

我因他迟到而十分生气。

〔辨析〕This word is often used by or to children.

该词常为儿童用语或对儿童的用语。

irate

very angry 指极其愤怒的、暴怒的：

irate customers

愤怒的顾客

an irate letter

言辞激愤的信

〔辨析〕Irate is not usually followed by a preposition.

irate后通常不跟介词：

She was irate with me/about it.