因?yàn)槿耸怯懈星榈模懈星榫蜁?huì)產(chǎn)生情緒。其中生氣是其中最常見的情緒之一，但是氣大傷身，因此要控制自己的情緒，減少發(fā)脾氣的次數(shù)。其實(shí)很多的爭吵都是圍繞一些雞毛蒜皮的事情，主要還是碌碌無為或無所事事造成的。生氣只是一種情緒，但是在英語中“生氣”的表達(dá)方式數(shù)不勝數(shù)，有的使人怒火中燒，有的大發(fā)雷霆，有的暴跳如雷，如 get sb's goat，piss sb off 和 bite one's head off 等等，它們都可以表示“暴跳如雷”。1. get sb's goat:Don’t let Mary get your goat. She’s just irritable today.別讓瑪麗惹你生氣。她今天很煩躁。If there's one thing that gets my goat, it's some fashion critic telling us what we can and can't wear.如果有一件事讓我惱火的話，那就是一些時(shí)尚評論家告訴我們什么可以穿，什么不能穿。2. piss sb off:Her attitude really pisses me off.她的態(tài)度讓我厭煩極了。John was so pissed off when he found out that someone else had been given the promotion instead of him.當(dāng)約翰發(fā)現(xiàn)別人代替他升職時(shí)，他非常生氣。3. bite/snap one's head off:I don't know what's wrong with Julia but she snapped my head off just now.我不知道茱莉亞怎么了，但她剛才在生我的氣。He was only making a suggestion — there’s no need to snap his head off!他只是在提個(gè)建議，沒必要生他的氣！相比于以上表達(dá)方式，lose one's temper 所表示的生氣的程度沒有那么大，例如：She never lost her temper, never raised her voice.她從不發(fā)脾氣，從不da's大嗓門。還有一個(gè)非常形象的習(xí)語 hit the roof，字面意思是“打天花板”，它的構(gòu)造方法與 hit the road 類似；可想而知，hit the roof 有怒發(fā)沖冠的感覺，用來表示非常生氣，可以意為“暴跳如雷，勃然大怒，大發(fā)雷霆”等，例如：When the referee disallowed his goal, he hit the roof and was given a red card.當(dāng)裁判駁回他的進(jìn)球時(shí)，他勃然大怒并被紅牌罰下。Dad will hit the roof when he finds out I dented the car.爸爸發(fā)現(xiàn)我把車撞壞了，一定會(huì)大發(fā)雷霆的。My parents are going to hit the roof if they find out we had a party here!如果我父母發(fā)現(xiàn)我們在這里開派對，他們會(huì)大發(fā)雷霆的！The boss hit the roof when he saw that we'd already blown through the budget.老板看到我們已經(jīng)把預(yù)算花光了，大發(fā)雷霆。跟 hit the roof 的程度相當(dāng)?shù)倪€有 annoy，irritate，enrage 或 infuriate 等單詞，不過這些單詞主要用來表示使某人大怒或生氣，例如：annoy:It annoys me that you're always late.你總是遲到，我很生氣。irritate:After a while her behaviour really began to irritate me.過了一會(huì)兒，她的行為真的開始激怒我了。enrage:Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.在附近建一家新夜總會(huì)的計(jì)劃激怒了當(dāng)?shù)鼐用瘛nfuriate:Her silence infuriated him even more.她的沉默使他更加憤怒了。很多人只把 anger 當(dāng)名詞使用，其實(shí) anger 也可以作動(dòng)詞，意為“使發(fā)怒，激怒”，例如：The question clearly angered him.這個(gè)問題顯然激怒了他。It always angers me to see so much waste.看到這么多浪費(fèi)總是讓我生氣。亂發(fā)脾氣不是本事，一個(gè)人只要有了為之奮斗的偉大目標(biāo)，就會(huì)漸漸遠(yuǎn)離雞毛蒜皮的事情，從而最大程度地減少亂發(fā)脾氣的次數(shù)。詞或詞組辨析：