perturb

IPA/pəˈtɜːb/
KK[pɚtˈɚb]IPA/pərˈtɜːrb/

perturb — 動詞

  • perturbpresent simple I / you / we / they
  • perturbshe / she / it
  • perturbedpast simple
  • perturbing-ing form

1. to make someone feel uneasy or mentally unsettled after something troubling or u

1.動詞及物C1
釋義

使不安

使人感到憂心或心神不定

to make someone feel uneasy or mentally unsettled after something troubling or unexpected happens.

例句

The letter from the hospital perturbed Valentina for the rest of the day.

那封醫院寄來的信讓 Valentina 一整天都很不安。

perturb + person after troubling news

News that the school bus was late perturbed Feng and the other parents.

校車誤點的消息讓 Feng 和其他家長都感到心煩。

同義詞
  • unsettle

    slightly more common, often for making someone feel unsure or nervous

  • disturb

    broader and less formal, can be emotional or physical

  • distress

    stronger, suggesting deeper emotional pain

反義詞
  • calm

    to make someone feel less worried or tense

  • reassure

    to remove someone's worry by giving comfort or certainty

文法句型

perturb + noun/pronoun

deeply perturb + person

用法筆記

Usually used in careful or formal English. The object is typically a person or group that becomes worried or emotionally unsettled, unlike sense 2, which usually affects a system, routine, or balance.

常見錯誤

❌She perturbed after the phone call.
✅She was perturbed after the phone call.' or 'The phone call perturbed her.
💡perturb is normally transitive; the adjective is perturbed.
❌The joke perturbed funny.
✅The joke was funny but it perturbed her.
💡perturb describes the effect on a person, not the quality of the event.

2. to disturb the normal order of something so that it no longer runs in a steady o

2.動詞及物C2
釋義

打亂；擾亂

使原有秩序或節奏失常

to disturb the normal order of something so that it no longer runs in a steady or organized way.

例句

A power cut perturbed the lab schedule for the entire morning.

停電把實驗室整個早上的排程都打亂了。

perturb + schedule/routine

The surprise audit perturbed the office routine and delayed every shipment.

突如其來的查核擾亂了辦公室的日常流程，也延誤了每一批出貨。

同義詞
  • disrupt

    more common, especially for interrupting a process or schedule

  • disturb

    broader and often milder, with less emphasis on overall disorder

  • derange

    much rarer and more literary, stressing loss of order

反義詞
  • stabilize

    to make something steady again

  • restore

    to bring a system or order back to its earlier state

文法句型

perturb + system/routine/schedule

perturb + balance/order

用法筆記

This sense usually takes an arrangement, process, balance, or organized activity as its object. It is more about disordering a system than making a person anxious, which belongs to sense 1.

常見錯誤

❌The broken printer perturbed on the staff.
✅The broken printer perturbed the office routine.
💡this sense takes the disrupted system or arrangement as its object.
❌The traffic perturbed me late.
✅The traffic delayed me.' or 'The traffic perturbed the parade route.
💡use this sense for disordering an organized process, not simply arriving late.