petulant

英 [ˈpetjulənt]

美 [ˈpetʃələnt]

adj.  闹脾气的; 爱耍性子的; 赌气的; 任性的

GRE

BNC.21013 / COCA.22374

牛津词典

adj.

• 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

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 大发脾气的；任性的
  Someone who ispetulantis 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。

英英释义

adj

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

双语例句

• 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；
• Her petulant, blase air.
  她那副任性、冷漠的神态。
• 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。
• 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。
• The petulant demands of spoilt children.
  宠坏的孩子提出的任性要求。
• He was petulant, selfish, arrogant and occasionally callous.
  他任性、自私、傲慢、有时候还很冷酷。
• 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。
• He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.
  他生气地拿起那支钢笔。
• She could be wayward, petulant, and disagreeable.
  她有时也会任性、脾气很坏、很暴躁。
• 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。