ill-tempered

英 [ˌɪl ˈtempəd]

美 [ˌɪl ˈtempərd]

adj.  脾气暴躁的; 动辄发怒的

牛津词典

adj.

• 脾气暴躁的；动辄发怒的
  angry and rude or irritated, especially when this seems unreasonable

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 脾气暴躁的;易怒的
  If you describe someone asill-tempered, you mean they are angry or hostile, and you may be implying that this is unreasonable.
  1. He sounded like an ill-tempered child...
     他听起来像一个脾气暴躁的孩子。
  2. It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.
     那天的辩论紧张激烈，常常火药味十足。

英英释义

adj

• annoyed and irritable
  Synonym:crabbedcrabbycrossfussygrouchygrumpybad-tempered

双语例句

• He rose slowly, and walking over to the ill-tempered young woman stood facing her for a few seconds.
  他缓缓地站了起来，走近那位脾气不好的小姐。他和她对峙了几秒钟。
• And it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their everyday countenance.
  无论他们有多坏的脾气，也不可能每天脸上都带着怒容吧。
• The teacher is so ill-tempered that nobody dare to raise a query in his class.
  老师的脾气很不好，因此无人敢在课堂上提出问题。
• To be constantly living with an ill-tempered person, must be dreadful.
  跟一个脾气很坏的人朝夕相处，一定很可怕。
• I should take him, even on my slight acquaintance, to be an ill-tempered man.
  我虽然跟他并不太熟，可是我认为他是个脾气很坏的人。
• Distorted thus by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed ill-tempered and imperfect.
  月亮于是被大地灼热的气息扭曲了面目：貌似躁戾，相若有缺。
• He passed for an Englishman, was agreeable, handsome, ill-tempered, hospitable and witty.
  他被认为是个英国人，彬彬有礼，仪表堂堂，脾气很坏，但却诙谐好客。
• They were careful to keep their distance from the ill-tempered professor.
  他们都谨慎地避开这位坏脾气的教授。
• It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.
  那天的辩论紧张激烈，常常火药味十足。
• Such a focus would have been hard to imagine during the ill-tempered fiscal battle between Mr Cantor and Mr Obama earlier this year.
  在坎特与奥巴马今年早些时候气急败坏的财政辩论大战中，这样的关注是难以想象的。