peevishness

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英英释义

noun

• a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
  1. his temper was well known to all his employees
  Synonym:temperbiliousnessirritabilitypettishnesssnappishnesssurliness
• an irritable petulant feeling
  Synonym:irritabilitycrossnessfretfulnessfussinesspetulancecholer

双语例句

• Be gentle In old age; peevishness are worse In second childhood than In first.
  老来要和蔼；第二幼年期的乖戾暴躁，更有甚于第一期。
• Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.
  怯懦的人总是把满腹牢骚向温和的人发泄。
• A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect, that Edgar Linton never had.
  一个苍白的、娇滴滴的、柔弱的男孩子，简直可以当我主人的小弟弟：两个人是这么相像：可是在他的相貌上有一种病态的乖僻，那是埃德加林惇从来没有的。