chafe

1. V-T/V-I If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it. 擦痛; 蹭疼

My shorts were chafing my thighs. 我的短褲蹭得我大腿疼。

His wrists began to chafe against the cloth strips binding them. 他的手腕開始被綁著的布帶子擦痛了。

The messenger bent and scratched at his knee where the strapping chafed. 信使彎身?yè)舷ドw上被帶子擦痛的地方。

2. V-I If you chafe at something such as a restriction, you feel annoyed about it. 惱火[正式] [no passive]

He had chafed at having to take orders from another. 他對(duì)不得不接受別人命令很是惱火。

He was chafing under the company's new ownership. 他對(duì)公司新的所有制很是惱火。