Such expressions rather grate on me.

这种说法对我很刺耳。

youdao

I know it shouldn't grate on me but it does.

我知道这个不该激怒我，但是它确实会。

youdao

The cheery quality of Ford's voice was beginning to grate on the barman's ears.

福特声音中的愉悦成分激怒了酒吧男侍的耳朵。

youdao

I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You don't hear from Colin Powell some of the things that you hear from say Richard Pearle who's not actually a member of the administration, but you can hardly turn on a radio or television programme without hearing the ubiquitous Mr Pearle, and there are probably European voices which grate on American ears.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

Such ideas do not grate only on liberals.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

He'd be squeezed against scores of other swine, hoofing a steel grate floor, while growing fatter and fatter on a factory farm.

WSJ: An Economy Caught in a Web