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单词 perturb
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Definition of perturb in English:

perturb

verb pəˈtəːbpərˈtərb
[with object]
  • 1Make (someoperturbatiuonne) anxious or unsettled.

    they were perturbed by her capricious behaviour
    with object and clause he was perturbed that his bleeper wouldn't work
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was particularly perturbed because, in the accompanying brochure, the drink was bright blue.
    • She was not perturbed by the low attendance, insisting that most people on the street supported her position.
    • What perturbs me though is the complete lack of value I have received from my taxes, that I have faithfully paid towards public health over the years.
    • What perturbs me is how we have come to accept all this.
    • But there was something about the film that perturbed me from the offset, and fairly swiftly I realised what it was.
    • I think it's her sleeve that perturbs me most, aside from the fact that the entire dress bores me fiercely.
    • He's also perturbed by the way his daughters' peers dress.
    • He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.
    • How many of you are perturbed if no-one posts anything in your comments box against a post you'd have liked some feedback on?
    • We are perturbed by the deteriorating condition on the health front.
    • However, neither Clive or Christine were perturbed by this.
    • There are, probably, two principal concerns that will be perturbing the potential visitor.
    • Much of the audience is perturbed by the portrayal here, but the setting quickly changes to the next day at school.
    • We are perturbed by the current strike by council workers and feel the best way out of the problem would be to return to work.
    • Fifteen years later when I revisited the issue, I was still perturbed.
    • She was not perturbed because she knew the warden called in every day.
    • She was perturbed by my independent streak, my take it or leave it attitude and my utter inability to find suitable companionship.
    • Some conservative voters are perturbed that the couple, married in 1998, appear to lead separate lives.
    • He said local residents were perturbed by this and felt there was the potential for the emergency services to get confused.
    • He was understandably perturbed, and scratched the gold surface off with a knife to show me how easy it was to tell it was fake.
    Synonyms
    worry, upset, unsettle, disturb, concern, trouble, make anxious, make uneasy, make fretful, disquiet
    upset, worried, unsettled, disturbed, concerned, troubled, anxious, ill at ease, uneasy, fretful, disquieted
  • 2Subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path.

    nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was therefore predicted that another more distant planet must be perturbing Uranus' orbit.
    • A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.
    • It will stay there if your hand is perfectly stable and nothing perturbs the equilibrium.
    • But how do mass extinctions perturb these systems in the first place?
    • In this case, inverting one element at a time might perturb its function whereas inverting them both at once might be less detrimental.
    • The failure of a laboratory's computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.
    • If we perturb a system that has a rational frequency ratio, then it can easily be shifted into a chaotic situation with irrational frequencies.
    • In this way, we see that the two systems engage in an exchange, a feedback loop of information and effect, which serves to further change or perturb each system.
    • Many suggest that global warming will perturb the climate system so much as to even initiate an Ice Age.
    • By their calculations, it wouldn't take much to perturb our own system, either.
    • The challenge is to perturb the system in a cell specific way to examine the behavioral consequences.
    • A general concern with AFM imaging of living cells is that the imaging process in some way perturbs the cells.
    • It could change the heating structure of the atmosphere and perturb the climate system in ways we don't understand now.
    • We evaluate the sensitivity of the system's perfect adaptation ability by perturbing the perfect adaptation conditions.
    • The future of experiments to test the behavioral role of neurons in vertebrates lies in using reverse genetic tools to perturb function.
    • Did you know that pressure from sunlight alone is sufficient to perturb the orbit of a satellite travelling in the solar system?
    • If their contributions to behavior are understood then one should be able to predictably alter the behavior by perturbing the activity of the neurons.
    • It also suggests magnetic fields as a useful tool for perturbing and investigating cellular processes that involve large biomolecular assemblies.
    • External factors that could perturb development include temperature and environmental chemicals.
    • Drugs perturb the system through increasing or decreasing transmission or transmitter levels, or up or down regulating receptor populations.

Derivatives

  • perturbable

  • adjective
  • perturbative

  • adjective ˈpəːtəbeɪtɪvpəˈtəːbətɪv
    • Relating to or involving the deviation of a system, moving object, or process from its regular or normal state or path.

      perturbative quantum gravity
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His logic, however, would have deprecated the early remarkable successes of perturbative quantum electrodynamics.
      • In the perturbative expansion of a gauge theory, large numbers of Feynman amplitudes combine to produce mathematically simple expressions.
      • Such measurements can then be compared with predictions of perturbative QCD, a relatively tractable corner of the full theory.
  • perturbingly

  • adverbpəˈtəːbɪŋlipərˈtərbɪŋli

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French pertourber, from Latin perturbare, from per- 'completely' + turbare 'disturb'.

  • trouble from Middle English:

    Our word trouble comes, by way of Old French truble, from Latin turbidus ‘disturbed, turbid’, source of turbid (early 17th century), and related to disturb (Middle English), perturb (Late Middle English), and turbulent (mid 16th century). From the start, in the 13th century, it meant ‘difficulty or problems’. ‘Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward’ is from the biblical book of Job who was a virtuous man that God tested by sending him many troubles. Most people now think of the Troubles in Northern Ireland as beginning in the early 1970s, but the same term applied to the unrest around the partition of Ireland in 1921, and in an 1880 glossary of words used in Antrim and Down the Troubles are defined as ‘the Irish rebellion of 1641’. The first troubleshooters had a very specific occupation. In the early years of the 20th century they mended faults on telegraph or telephone lines.

Rhymes

acerb, blurb, curb, disturb, herb, kerb, Serb, superb, verb
 
 

Definition of perturb in US English:

perturb

verbpərˈtərbpərˈtərb
[with object]
  • 1Make (someone) anxious or unsettled.

    they were perturbed by her capricious behavior
    with object and clause they were perturbed that the bank had begun switching some of its problem loans
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of the audience is perturbed by the portrayal here, but the setting quickly changes to the next day at school.
    • He's also perturbed by the way his daughters' peers dress.
    • But there was something about the film that perturbed me from the offset, and fairly swiftly I realised what it was.
    • Fifteen years later when I revisited the issue, I was still perturbed.
    • We are perturbed by the deteriorating condition on the health front.
    • Some conservative voters are perturbed that the couple, married in 1998, appear to lead separate lives.
    • He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.
    • However, neither Clive or Christine were perturbed by this.
    • I think it's her sleeve that perturbs me most, aside from the fact that the entire dress bores me fiercely.
    • He was understandably perturbed, and scratched the gold surface off with a knife to show me how easy it was to tell it was fake.
    • How many of you are perturbed if no-one posts anything in your comments box against a post you'd have liked some feedback on?
    • She was perturbed by my independent streak, my take it or leave it attitude and my utter inability to find suitable companionship.
    • She was not perturbed by the low attendance, insisting that most people on the street supported her position.
    • What perturbs me though is the complete lack of value I have received from my taxes, that I have faithfully paid towards public health over the years.
    • We are perturbed by the current strike by council workers and feel the best way out of the problem would be to return to work.
    • I was particularly perturbed because, in the accompanying brochure, the drink was bright blue.
    • There are, probably, two principal concerns that will be perturbing the potential visitor.
    • He said local residents were perturbed by this and felt there was the potential for the emergency services to get confused.
    • She was not perturbed because she knew the warden called in every day.
    • What perturbs me is how we have come to accept all this.
    Synonyms
    worry, upset, unsettle, disturb, concern, trouble, make anxious, make uneasy, make fretful, disquiet
    upset, worried, unsettled, disturbed, concerned, troubled, anxious, ill at ease, uneasy, fretful, disquieted
  • 2technical Subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path.

    nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Drugs perturb the system through increasing or decreasing transmission or transmitter levels, or up or down regulating receptor populations.
    • In this way, we see that the two systems engage in an exchange, a feedback loop of information and effect, which serves to further change or perturb each system.
    • It could change the heating structure of the atmosphere and perturb the climate system in ways we don't understand now.
    • But how do mass extinctions perturb these systems in the first place?
    • The future of experiments to test the behavioral role of neurons in vertebrates lies in using reverse genetic tools to perturb function.
    • It also suggests magnetic fields as a useful tool for perturbing and investigating cellular processes that involve large biomolecular assemblies.
    • A general concern with AFM imaging of living cells is that the imaging process in some way perturbs the cells.
    • In this case, inverting one element at a time might perturb its function whereas inverting them both at once might be less detrimental.
    • If their contributions to behavior are understood then one should be able to predictably alter the behavior by perturbing the activity of the neurons.
    • By their calculations, it wouldn't take much to perturb our own system, either.
    • External factors that could perturb development include temperature and environmental chemicals.
    • It was therefore predicted that another more distant planet must be perturbing Uranus' orbit.
    • The challenge is to perturb the system in a cell specific way to examine the behavioral consequences.
    • Many suggest that global warming will perturb the climate system so much as to even initiate an Ice Age.
    • A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.
    • The failure of a laboratory's computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.
    • It will stay there if your hand is perfectly stable and nothing perturbs the equilibrium.
    • We evaluate the sensitivity of the system's perfect adaptation ability by perturbing the perfect adaptation conditions.
    • If we perturb a system that has a rational frequency ratio, then it can easily be shifted into a chaotic situation with irrational frequencies.
    • Did you know that pressure from sunlight alone is sufficient to perturb the orbit of a satellite travelling in the solar system?

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French pertourber, from Latin perturbare, from per- ‘completely’ + turbare ‘disturb’.

 
 
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