querulous

[美]/ˈkwerələs/
[英]/ˈkwerələs/
词频: 极高

释义

adj. 抱怨的,易怒的,爱发牢骚的

例句

a querulous voice; querulous comments.

不满的声音;不满的评论

she became querulous and demanding.

她变得牢骚满腹,吹毛求疵。

The querulous old man refused to be put on the shelf.

那个爱抱怨的老人不肯让人撇在一边。

The querulous customer complained about the service.

爱抱怨的顾客抱怨服务。

She had a querulous tone in her voice.

她说话声音带有抱怨的口气。

The querulous child kept asking for more candy.

那个爱抱怨的孩子一直要求更多糖果。

His querulous attitude made it difficult to work with him.

他爱抱怨的态度让和他合作变得困难。

The querulous old man was never satisfied with anything.

那个爱抱怨的老人对任何事情都不满意。

The querulous tone in her email was off-putting.

她邮件中的抱怨口气让人反感。

Her querulous nature often led to conflicts with her colleagues.

她爱抱怨的性格经常导致与同事之间的冲突。

The querulous dog barked incessantly at the mailman.

那只爱抱怨的狗对着送信人不停地吠叫。

The querulous student always had something to complain about.

那个爱抱怨的学生总是有什么事情要抱怨。

Despite her querulous nature, she was still well-liked by her friends.

尽管她爱抱怨,但她仍然受朋友喜爱。

原声例句

Suddenly, however, he broke out into a sharp, querulous cry.

忽然间,他失望地尖声喊了起来。

来源: The Sign of the Four

Her one qualification for life was rather blowsy high spirits, which turned querulous or boisterous according to circumstances.

她的唯一生存条件是情绪高涨, 根据情况变得暴躁或喧闹。

来源: The places where angels dare not tread.

Six o'clock stole down too soon and rang the querulous melody of St. Anne's chimes on the corner.

六点钟悄悄降临,拐角处响起了圣安妮钟声的牢骚旋律。

来源: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

The people enjoyed sleeping in their quilts, no matter if they were a querulous person or a quiet person.

人们在被子里享受睡眠,不论他是个易怒的人还是个安静的人。

来源: Pan Pan

Should I not have sunk into lowest depths of querulous self-pity, grovelling there with eyes obstinately averted from the light above?

难道我不应该陷入怨天尤人的自怜的最低谷, 匍匐在那里, 眼睛顽固地避开上面的光吗?

来源: Essays on the Four Seasons

It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse.

就好像他的眼睛在屏住呼吸, 而他的母亲看着他, 她的脸松弛而牢骚, 没完没了,洞察力又迟钝。

来源: The Sound and the Fury

Her voice was querulous, almost tearful, and I realized she had also been rehearsing an argument in her head for the entire fifty or so blocks.

她的声音充满怨言, 几乎是泪流满面,我意识到在整个五十个街区的时间里, 她也在脑海中排练了一场争论。

来源: Still Me (Me Before You #3)

Prosperity never before imagined, power never yet wielded by man, speed never reached by anything but a meteor, had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable and afraid.

前所未见的繁荣,前所未见的权力,前所未见的速度,只有流星才能达到的速度,让这个世界变得急躁、紧张、牢骚、不可理喻和恐惧。

来源: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

But Adam did not come down again; he was too weary and worn-out to encounter more of his mother's querulous grief, and he went to rest on his bed.

但是亚当没有再下来;他太累了,再也无法忍受他母亲抱怨的悲痛,他就去床上休息了。

来源: Adam Bede (Part One)

But this presence of Dinah in his mind only helped him to bear the better with his mother's mood, which had been becoming more and more querulous for the last hour.

但黛娜在他脑海中的存在只会帮助他更好地忍受他母亲的情绪, 在过去的一个小时里, 他的情绪变得越来越暴躁。

来源: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

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