This pocket-picking would be less irksome if something useful came of it.

这种偷窃行为要是能干点实事能就不会这么招人厌恶了。

You can also irk and vex someone. So, something that gets your goat is irksome or vexing.

以“irk（激怒）”和“vex（惹恼）”某人。因此，让生气的事情是令人讨厌或烦恼的。

With a tiny jerk of the head, Snape seemed to flick off an irksome fly.

斯内普微微抽动了一下，像是赶走了一只恶心的苍蝇。

The problem is particularly irksome for sites dedicated to offering reviews, such as Yelpand TripAdvisor.

对于专门提供点评的网站，如Yelp和猫途鹰，题更为棘手。

" I have an irksome duty to perform, " thought Julien.

“我有一项令人厌烦的职责要履行， ” 于连想。

That day was an irksome time at Endelstow vicarage.

那天在恩德尔斯托牧住宅是一段令人厌烦的时光。

So, something that gets your goat is irksome or vexing.

所以，让生气的事情是令人厌烦或烦恼的。

Well, it doesn't have to be all grim and irksome.

好吧，它不一定都是严峻和令人厌烦的。

Tom's distress of mind wore off gradually and the toothache grew irksome and was discarded.

汤姆心中的苦恼逐渐消退，牙痛变得令人厌烦，于是被抛弃了。

If that weren't irksome enough for American bosses, some of their businesses are feeling the pain abroad, too.

如果这对美国老板来说还不够令人讨厌，那么他们的一些企业在国外感受到了痛苦。

There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and an excess of work is always very painful.

毫无有许多工作是非常令人厌烦的，而且过多的工作总是十分痛苦的事。

Safeguards are often irksome, but sometimes convenient, and if one needs them at all, one is apt to need them badly.

保障措施常常令人厌烦，但有时却很方便，如果有人需要它们，那么人们很能会非常需要它们。

So choose something which you get a lot of pleasure out of, and that way it won't seem irksome at all.

所以选择一些从中获得很多乐趣的东西，这样它就不会显得令人讨厌。

Most of their fellow students seemed glad that they were being shepherded from class to class by teachers, but Harry found it very irksome.

大部分同学似乎很高兴有老护送他们从一个教室到另一个教室，但哈利觉得非常厌烦。

Negroes commonly preferred tilling plots of their own, rented or bought under mortgage, to the more irksome wage labor under white supervision.

黑人通常更喜欢自己的耕地， 租用或抵押购买，而不是在白人监督下进行更令人厌烦的雇佣劳动。

" It's true enough" . The weight of his golden hand had grown irksome. He fumbled at the straps that secured it to his wrist.

" 事情是真的。" 金手越来越沉，他摸索向手腕处固定用的皮带。

Up to that night, while she hoped for his return, the child which she bore under her heart was not irksome to her.

直到那天晚上， 虽然她盼着他回来， 但心底所怀的孩子并不令她厌烦。

" If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety" ?

“如果我们和军队一起旅行， 虽然我们能会觉得他们的存在令人厌烦， 但我们的安全难道不会更有保障吗” ？

Aunt Drusilla, I knew, was so very eccentric; and his being almost a stranger to her now would have made it irksome to both.

我知道德鲁西拉姨妈非常古怪； 他现在对她来说几乎是个陌生人， 这会让双方都感到厌烦。

Believe me, it has been irksome to me to have to refuse you information on so many occasions- extremely irksome.

相信我，不得不在这么多场合拒绝的信息对我来说一直很烦人——非常烦人。