ruffling

基本解释

The trouble is that OHIM is ruffling the feathers of some national trademark offices, with which it competes.
現在的麻煩是，OHIM激怒了它的一些競爭對手——一些國家的商標授予部門。
I DREAMT that she sat by my head, tenderly ruffling my hair with her fingers, playing the melody of her touch.
我夢見，她坐在我的牀頭，纖纖素手輕柔地撫弄我的頭發，那愛撫像是在彈撥美妙的樂曲。
Yet investment banks serve so many masters at the same time that sometimes they cannot avoid ruffling feathers.
然而，那些投資銀行同時就要應付多個主顧，有時避免不了激怒某些人。

Partnering with retailers while ruffling their feathers has been a tough balancing act.
FORBES: Entrepreneurs
What is this animal that is so ruffling the governing elite: professional pessimist, or lucid analyst of the French mood?
ECONOMIST: The useful function of declinologists
At a low enough rate a financial transaction tax would not impact buy-and-hold investors at all, while barely ruffling active traders.
FORBES: A Tax Both Ayn Rand And Ralph Nader Could Love

If you ruffle someone's hair, you move your hand backward and forward through it as a way of showing your affection toward them.
When the wind ruffles something such as the surface of the sea, it causes it to move gently in a wavelike motion.
If something ruffles someone, it causes them to panic and lose their confidence or to become angry or upset.
If a bird ruffles its feathers or if its feathers ruffle, they stand out on its body, for example when it is cleaning itself or when it is frightened.
an irregular or disturbed surface
Ruffles are folds of cloth at the neck or the ends of the arms of a piece of clothing, or are sometimes sewn on things as a decoration.
a low continuous drumbeat
to beat (a drum) with a low repetitive beat
to behave riotously or arrogantly swagger
To ruffle someone's feathers means to cause them to become very angry, nervous, or upset.