英语释义

• having a difficult and contrary disposition;

  "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

• stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;

  "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator

片语

spleenful脾气坏的

absolute cantankerous正交

geneva cantankerous十字形接头

mean-tempered脾气坏的

cantankerous band交联键

cantankerous barter交叉买卖

cantankerous facet穿插面

knife cantankerous劈木机

cantankerous crotch十字浪

cantankerous listing彼此上市

besomy cantankerous血十字

英汉例句

• Cutting spending is hardly easier in Los Angeles, which has-like many western cities but unlike the biggest eastern ones-a weak mayor who shares power with a cantankerous city council.

  洛杉矶削减开销是很不容易的，这像许多西方的城市不是像西方最大的城市，有个无能力的市长和脾气坏且抱怨不休地市政务委员会共享权利。

• It was a priceless moment, and I later regretted not snapping a few photos of the cantankerous old man when I had the chance, fan and all.

  这是非常宝贵的时刻。过后我就后悔，为什么在他扇扇子之类能给我机会的时候，我没有抢拍一些这位坏脾气老人的照片。

• And there was, in fact, less success than advertised.They were too cantankerous to fly as often or as inexpensively as planned, so the hope of doing things more cheaply in space evaporated.

  实际上航天飞机发射成功的次数要比宣传中的少。操纵维修保养复杂，也不像计划中的那么廉价，经常导致无法正常工作，使得在太空中做一些性价比更高的事情的希望消失了。

• Will all this assuage the cantankerous markets?

  做的所有的努力有可能缓和这个敏感的是市场吗？

• Charlie said it was because of my cantankerous nature, especially when being started.

  查理说，这是因为我的脾气古怪的性质，尤其是在正在启动。

• You may not be an easy person to live with because of periodic outbursts of temper and sometimes cantankerous attitude.

  你可能不是个容易相处的人，因为你周期性情绪的爆发及偶尔发作的脾气暴躁。

• The cantankerous bus driver roused on the children for singing.

  那个坏脾气的公共汽车司机因为孩子们唱歌而骂他们。

• If my shoemaker turn me out an excellent pair of boots, and I, in some mood of cantankerous unreason, throw them back upon his hands, the man has just cause of complaint.

  假如我的鞋匠给我做出一双极好的靴子，而我却因为心情不好，缺乏理性，猛地把它们扔到他手上，那么他是有正当理由抱怨的。

• The cantankerous bus driver rouse on the children for singing.

  那个坏脾气的公共汽车司机因为孩子们唱歌而骂他们。

• Mrs Letouzel, you cantankerous old bag, what do you mean, by complaining about your money!

  累托兹太太，你这个老泼妇，你为你的钱。

• Though somewhat cantankerous at times, she was far less surly and unapproachable than the sour-faced Wuher.

  尽管有时脾气不太好，但和一脸苦大仇深的伍赫相比，她要和蔼可亲得多。

• A 2003 redistricting effort, in the most notorious example, was so cantankerous that at one point 53 Democrats fled to Oklahoma so as to deprive the House of a quorum.

  一个众所周知的例子，2003年重画学区的结果，由于互相不合作，最后one民主党人逃到了俄克拉荷马州，于是被剥夺了众议院的席位。

相似词

cranky暴躁的；古怪的；动摇的

irritable过敏的；急躁的；易怒的

cross交叉；杂交；横过

mean用意；意味着；意欲；引起；十分熟悉；严肃地说；意义重大；预示

quarrelsome喜欢吵架的；好争论的

irritable过敏的；急躁的；易怒的

quarrelsome喜欢吵架的；好争论的

mean用意；意味着；意欲；引起；十分熟悉；严肃地说；意义重大；预示

cranky暴躁的；古怪的；动摇的

cross交叉；杂交；横过