I get upset. 我很生气。That's so offensive. 真是令人生气。offensive是“进攻的”, “进攻性的”意思，和defensive“防御的”, “防备的”是一对反义词。但是，这里的offensive是“冒犯的”，“无礼的”，“侮辱的”意思。offensiv作“进攻的”意思讲时，只在句中修饰名词。“她好像挺有进攻性的”，这句话用英文来说就是"She really seemed like an offensive girl". 但是，"She really seemed to be offensive"的意思却是“她好像很无礼”That person is so rude. 那个人太粗鲁了。How rude can you be?你怎么如此无礼？That really makes me mad/angry/upset. 那简直要让我发疯。make sb mad让某人发疯He drives me crazy when he does that. 他那样做的时候简直让我发疯。drive sb mad/crazy让某人发疯I'm really displeased with her behavior. 我对她的行为感到非常不满意。be displeased with...对...不满意She is the most unpleasant woman I've ever met. 她是我见过的最令人讨厌的女人。That kind of thing really pisses me off. 这种事太让我心烦了。piss sb off让某人生气Dialogue1A: What's wrong with you?你怎么了？B: I dropped my sunglasses and they all got scratched up. It makes me so sad when I do that. 我把眼镜掉在地上刮坏了，这让我很难过。Conversation:A: What's wrong? You don't look too happy.怎么了？你看起来不太高兴。B: No, I'm not.是啊，我很生气。A: Why? What happened?为什么，出了什么事？B: I was talking with a customer who came into the office today. He was going to ABC University, and he made a remark about DEF University, which I went to. That really put me in a bad mood.我今天接待了一位来我们办公室的客户，他要去ABC大学，但他对我上的DEF大学评论了一通，让我很不高兴。put sb in a bad mood让某人不高兴A: Try not to let it get to you. Why don't you sit down here? I'll give you a massage. 别让这件事影响你，干脆在这儿坐一坐吧，我来给你做做按摩。get to在这里是“影响”，“对...产生影响”。

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