upset

[英][ʌpˈset][美][ʌpˈsɛt]

vi.打翻，弄翻;打乱，打搅;

vt.打乱，搅乱;推翻，弄翻;使心烦意乱;使翻倒;

n.翻倒，颠覆;心烦意乱;混乱;

adj.难过的;失望的;沮丧的;（肠胃）不舒服的;

1.But my mother was upset.

但我母亲却心烦意乱。

2.This experiment and others helped alfred loomis show how emotional upset could change human brain waves.

这个实验和其他一些实验帮助阿尔佛雷德向人们展示了：心烦能够改变人的脑电波。

3.Something could happen in the next few weeks to upset expectations for 2012.

未来几周发生的事情可能会打乱人们对2012年的预期。

4.Hearing first hand accounts of the scale and nature of the violence has disturbed and upset me.

掌握一手的卡扎菲暴力的程度和本质让我很混乱也很失落。

5.When I asked him last year about a $32 million ruling that declared his company midamerican had "willfully and intentionally" miscalculated future profits to force out minority stock holders in a hydro power project in the philippines in the1990s,he seemed upset and rapidly fired off numerous reasons why the ruling was invalid,and how he'd appeal.

去年当我问到那项3,200万美元的裁定时（即判定其公司MidAmerican“蓄意并故意”误算未来利润，在上世纪90年代迫使小股东退出菲律宾的一个水电项目），他看起来有些心烦意乱，连珠炮似地说了一堆理由试图说明这项裁定是错误的，以及他将如何抗诉。