骂街的泼妇;行为粗野的人 If you say that someone is behaving like a fishwife, you mean that they are shouting a great deal and behaving in a very unpleasant and bad-tempered way.
These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, set the philosopher to thinking. 这些下流的车辆,它们使人感到一种莫名其妙的黑暗,会引起哲学家的深思。
I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture. 我替市政府当一天骂街的。
Did Lord Eddard father you on a fishwife? 莫非你是艾德大人跟一个渔妇生下来的?
She was screaming at me like a fishwife. 她对着我大喊大叫。
Never in a million years would I become that shrewish fishwife shrieking from the doorway because my husband had spent the night carousing with the boys in avoidance of his husbandly duties. 我万万没想过自己会变成那种因丈夫不守本分整晚在外与友人酣饮而在门口放声大骂的泼妇。