peevish

adj.

1. 爱生气的；易怒的；脾气坏的
   easily annoyed by unimportant things; bad-tempered

1. ADJ-GRADED 易怒的；脾气坏的
   Someone who is peevish is bad-tempered.
   1. Aubrey had slept little and that always made him peevish...
      奥布里睡眠不足，这让他总是易怒。
   2. She glared down at me with a peevish expression on her face.
      她低头瞪着我，一脸怒气。

1. Aubrey had slept little and that always made him peevish
   奥布里睡眠不足，这让他总是易怒。
2. She glared down at me with a peevish expression on her face.
   她低头瞪着我，一脸怒气。
3. She's always fretful and peevish like this, so just leave her alone.
   她动不动就闹小性儿，让她闹去，甭理她。
4. He was assailed by a fancy FOR peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.
   他在反感中突然起了一种想对人亲切的心情，那种心情在医生和神甫中是常见的，在他说来却是绝无仅有的。
5. It sounds peevish to say so, but if you can train your brain to think clearly, writing will become easier and what you produce will be better.
   这样说听起来有些矫情，但如果你能训练自己的大脑清晰地思考，写作会变得更加容易，你写出来的东西也会更棒。
6. After peevish [ 2] years cast as China's underperforming neighbour, the huntress is now in hot pursuit.
   印度“捕猎者”中国的近邻，多年来一直不佳，心情急躁，如今正奋起直追。
7. THE discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother.
   关于柯林斯先生求婚问题的，讨论差不多就要结束了，现在伊丽莎白只感到一种照例难免的的不愉快，有时候还要听她母亲埋怨一两声。
8. Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly.
   待遇的不平使她性躁，生活的艰苦使她变丑。
9. The attitude of the invalid toward the cattleman was something like that of a peevish, perverse child toward an indulgent parent.
   这个病人对牧场主的态度，正如一个倔强乖张的小孩儿对待溺爱的父母。
10. David Axelrod, the Obama campaign manager, called him "peevish"; another official opted for "irascible".
    奥巴马竞选经理戴维艾克斯罗德（davidaxelrod）说麦凯恩“易怒”，还有一位官员说他“爱发脾气”。
11. Tending to complain or grumble; peevish or grumpy.
    易于抱怨或发牢骚的，脾气坏的，暴躁的。
12. She reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.
    她报告说他是一个多病的任性的东西。
13. The child is never peevish unless sick.
    这孩子只有在生病时才会闹别扭。
14. Joseph!'cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room.
    “约瑟夫！”从里屋传来的一个抱怨的声音跟我同时叫起来。
15. A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.
    一个脾气暴躁的孩子自己不高兴也使别人不高兴。
16. This was a whole different emotional tone, more peevish but less selfish.
    这种心境与以前完全不同，更加的倔强，却少了自私。
17. I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.
    然后我又离开了她，她在一种最坏的、最乖张的心情中上了门闩。
18. Do say you will. I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you? '
    我想我一定不会跟你发脾气，你是不会惹我生气的，而且你总是想帮助我的，不是吗？
19. I cannot speak any beginning to this peevish odds; and would in action glorious I had lost those legs that brought me to a part of it!
    我说不出这场任性的争吵是怎麽开始的；只怪我这双腿不曾在光荣的战阵上失去，那麽我也不会踏进这种是非中间了！
20. I cannot speak Any beginning to this peevish odds;
    我说不出这场任性的争吵是怎麽开始的；
21. Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.
    到傍晚打喷嚏，一边拨着劈啪的火。

adj

1. easily irritated or annoyed
   1. an incorrigibly fractious young man
   2. not the least nettlesome of his countrymen

   Synonym:    crankyfractiousirritablenettlesomepeckishpettishpetulantscratchytestytetchytechy