英语释义

• brusque and surly and forbidding;

  "crusty remarks"

  "a crusty old man"

  "his curmudgeonly temper"

  "gruff manner"

  "a gruff reply"

片语

cheapad 便宜地

petty(Petty)人名；(英、法)佩蒂

英汉例句

• It feels a bit curmudgeonly to suggest that these happy Asian trends should be greeted with skepticism.

  用怀疑论的眼光去看待亚洲这些令人鼓舞的趋势，这种建议未免让人扫兴。

• So I told Jackson that for all his curmudgeonly talk about despising the All-Star weekend that he was right in tune with its spirit: fun and entertainment.

  因此我就小小的提醒了一下杰克逊，即使你再怎么讨厌和不喜欢全明星这样的活动，但是你可不能忘记全明星「娱乐第一」的宗旨噢。

• Besides, curmudgeonliness is arguably a rational way to cope with an imperfect world, rather than a sign of mental maladjustment (or so your occasionally curmudgeonly columnist would like to believe).

  此外，发脾气被认为是应对这个不完美世界的一种合理行为，而并不是什么精神失调的表现。

• There「s the cliche of the curmudgeonly comic – grouchy, aloof, a bit passive aggressive – and there」s the one who can「t switch off, and craves laughter like you or I need oxygen.

  他们的特征都是小气的喜剧演员共有的——爱抱怨、冷漠、些许消极的攻击性。还有一种演员则不停地让你我笑到缺氧。

• EVEN the most curmudgeonly critic would have to admit the one great benefit of e-government: it comes twinned with i-government, where I stands for information.

  甚至最小气的批评家都不得不承认电子政府的一个巨大好处：它伴随着信息政府。

• Over time, the strategy softened Helms」 resistance, setting the stage for the curmudgeonly North Carolina politician to end his financial stranglehold on the U.N.

  这一战略逐渐软化了赫尔姆斯的抵制，使这位北卡罗来纳州出名坏脾气的老政治家终于有可能放弃其对联合国经费的财政扼杀主张。

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