fractious
英 [ˈfrækʃəs]
美 [ˈfrækʃəs]
adj. 暴躁的; 易怒的; 动辄烦躁的; 捣乱的; 表示不满的
BNC.21157 / COCA.19745
牛津词典
adj.
- 暴躁的;易怒的;动辄烦躁的
bad-tempered or easily upset, especially by small things- Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.
孩子们疲倦时易烦躁好哭。
- Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.
- 捣乱的;表示不满的
making trouble and complaining- The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.
这六个不安分的加盟共和国要求自治。
- The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 易怒的;烦躁的;脾气不好的
If you describe someone asfractious, you disapprove of them because they become upset or angry very quickly about small unimportant things.- ...fractious national movements.
难以控制的全国运动 - Nancy was in a fractious mood...
南希情绪烦躁。 - The children were predictably fractious.
孩子们肯定会耍脾气。
- ...fractious national movements.
英英释义
adj
- unpredictably difficult in operation
- rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
- fractious components of a communication system
- easily irritated or annoyed
- an incorrigibly fractious young man
- not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
- a refractory child
双语例句
- Importantly, their armies also learn to work together, even when relations between their governments occasionally turn fractious.
重要的是,甚至是在与他们政府间关系偶尔紧张时,他们的军队也学会了如何协作。 - The children were predictably fractious.
孩子们肯定会耍脾气。 - AIG is still looking for a chairman, whose primary job will be to manage the troubled company's fractious relationship with the Obama administration, lawmakers and regulators.
AIG仍在寻找担任董事长的合适人选。该职位的主要职责将是改善这家陷入困境的公司与奥巴马(Obama)政府、议员和监管机构的不和睦的关系。 - Nancy was in a fractious mood
南希情绪烦躁。 - But, though the Chinese onslaught looks fractious and pell-mell, conspiracy theorists smell a state-driven attack on the commanding heights of Australia's economy.
虽然中国人的攻击看起来有些暴躁和忙乱,但在这波旨在控制澳大利亚经济高度的攻击中,阴谋论者似乎嗅到了一丝国家主使的气息。 - Yet simultaneously, members of Britain's third party usually a fractious bunch seemed in a splendid mood.
然而同时,英国第三政党的成员(通常是难以对付的一群)似乎心情很好。 - He seems, within his discourse, distracted by hectoring students and fractious fellow-faculty.
在他的论述里,他似乎受到了浮夸的学生和倔强的学院同仁的影响。 - An incorrigibly fractious young man; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen.
脾气坏得不可救药的年轻人;在他的同胞中决不是脾气最好的。 - The US and China squared off over a series of contentious diplomatic, economic and business disputes in a White House summit on Wednesday, in meetings that the two sides hope will stabilise fractious bilateral ties.
美国和中国周三在白宫举行的峰会上就一系列棘手的外交、经济和商业争端展开对话,双方希望这些会谈将有助于稳定充满波折的双边关系。 - Above all, he sees Europe as it is: a fractious collection of27 members.
在他的眼中,欧盟是一个由27名成员组成的、轻率急躁的集体。