petulant

adj.

1. 闹脾气的；爱耍性子的；赌气的；任性的
   bad-tempered and unreasonable, especially because you cannot do or have what you want

1. ADJ-GRADED 大发脾气的；任性的
   Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way.
   1. His critics say he's just being silly and petulant...
      批评家说他就是愚蠢和任性。
   2. He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.
      他生气地拿起那支钢笔。

1. His critics say he's just being silly and petulant
   批评家说他就是愚蠢和任性。
2. He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.
   他生气地拿起那支钢笔。
3. Smile, sulking is for petulant teenagers, he will be relieved you have brushed over his embarrassment and won't forget again.
   你对他的失误一笑而过会让他倍感释怀，下次再也不会忘记了。
4. His behaviour at the end was undoubtedly petulant, unsavoury, especially when he pushed aside an Italian official who tried to stop him leaving.
   他最后的表现，尤其当他推开一名试图阻止他离开的意大利官员时，无疑令人不快，甚至愤怒。
5. Bryant is often portrayed as petulant, selfish, and at times overbearing in newspaper coverage and magazine profiles.
   科比常被媒体描述为脾气坏的、自私的球员，有时还在报纸封面和杂志外形中显得傲慢。
6. Some over-exaggerated diving and a petulant elbow that saw him sent off in March did little for his standing and earned him a second three-match ban just as Arsenal were finding their form.
   但是一些过分夸张的假摔和粗暴的肘击使得他在三月份表现很差劲，还得到了第二次停赛三场，而这一切都发生在阿森纳正在寻找他们的位置的时候。
7. She could be wayward, petulant, and disagreeable.
   她有时也会任性、脾气很坏、很暴躁。
8. He grew moody and petulant.
   他变得喜怒无常，蛮不讲理。
9. That Olympian company is certainly a jovial, amorous, loving, lying, quarreling and vow-breaking, petulant lot;
   奥林匹克那一群的确是一些快活的，好色的，会恋爱，会说慌，会吵架，也会背誓的性急易怒的家伙；
10. Her petulant, blase air.
    她那副任性、冷漠的神态。
11. One colleague recalled the dancer's petulant refusal to collect an award because his name had been wrongly pronounced.
    一位同事回忆那名舞蹈演员因为他的名字被念错了就使性子拒绝领奖。
12. They were incredulous and petulant.
    他们不肯轻信，脾气暴躁。
13. In the daytime, in the hot mornings, thesemotors made a petulant, irritable sound; at night, in the still evening whenthe afterglow lit the water, they whined about one's ears like mosquitoes.
    一大早，你就被这些马达吵得浮气躁，愈发感觉溽热难耐；向晚时分，斜阳夕照，湖面波光流动，这嗡嗡声却还像一团蚊子般不绝于耳。
14. Come on, Don't be petulant, just pick up the stupid can.
    行了，不要使性子，把那个罐子捡起来就好了。
15. The petulant demands of spoilt children.
    宠坏的孩子提出的任性要求。
16. Although unaggressive and unfailingly polite, the Fayed heir was "a complete pain in the backside" with no concept of time-keeping, yet petulant at necessary delays.
    虽然法耶德家族的这位继承人总是温和、有礼，但简直让他感觉“如芒刺在背”，因为多迪毫无时间概念，却还为必然的延误发脾气。
17. He was petulant, selfish, arrogant and occasionally callous.
    他任性、自私、傲慢、有时候还很冷酷。
18. Obama-bashing is a feeble and petulant response for the eurosceptics.
    对欧洲怀疑论者而言，抨击奥巴马是一种软弱而无理的回应。

adj

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

   Synonym:    crankyfractiousirritablenettlesomepeevishpeckishpettishscratchytestytetchytechy