petulance

单词petulance

基本解释

n.: 易怒；别扭；急躁言行；狂妄
网络: 闹气；暴躁；发脾气

英汉解释

• 易怒;使性子

• 〔古语〕无礼,狂妄

• 易怒,暴躁,坏脾气;别扭,闹气;急躁言行

同义词

n.sulkinesssullennessmoodinessgrouchinessbad temper

反义词

n.affability

例句

• What Mr. Radcliffe does not seem to possess is the arrogance or petulance that typically comes with such fortune and fame.

  一般而言，巨额财富和显赫声名接踵而至，人就会变得傲慢自大、任性无礼，然而雷德克里夫先生似乎并没有这种毛病。

• Second, in a pinch, the government lapses into bully boy petulance, throwing economic and military weight around the region.

  其次，在必要时，中国政府会表现出街头霸王的任性，在区域内利用经济和军事实力以势压人。

• Mr Rooney, however, is hampered by the characteristic English vices of insubordination and petulance.

  然而，鲁尼受到了不服从命令和任性等英国人特有的恶习的阻碍。

• Today, such hunger and dynamism seem less evident in American life than petulance that the world is not cooperating.

  今天，美国人身上的这种渴望和活力看上去弱于他们对世界不与其合作而产生的急躁感。

• He tears up the manuscript in a fit of petulance.

  他一怒之下把手稿撕碎了。

• The footnotes the conference now occupies in the history book relate mainly to Franklin Roosevelt"s petulance.

  这次会议如今在历史书上占用的脚注主要与富兰克林-罗斯福（FranklinRoosevelt）的莽撞有关。

• He affects the disdainful petulance of a rock star.

  他假装出摇滚明星般倔傲的任性。

• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

  每个老人都抱怨世界日益腐败，正在成长的一代人无礼傲慢。

• Also, some women"s brains are wired to interpret anger and petulance as love because of their early negative experiences with men.

  另外，因为一些女性和男性早起的消极经历，她们的大脑因爱生狠，还要耍性子，从而让她们感到兴奋。

• It is time for both bodies to overcome (or sidestep) such petulance.

  现在是两个实体克服这样的任性的时候了。