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
- Nancy was in a fractious mood
南希情绪烦躁。 - He put his finger to his lips, as if hushing a fractious child.
他把指头放在嘴唇上,好像在要个烦躁的孩子肃静。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Since the second world war, the US has led the evolution of a system of multilateral export controls that has worked well to stem transfers of militarily useful commercial commodities and technology to fractious or unstable nations.
自二战以来,美国领导了多边出口管制体系的发展,有效地阻止了具有军事用途的商业物资和技术转移到不友好或是不稳定的国家。 - Every time I got home, she always shaking her tail, I went to the fractious arms.
每当我回到家的时候,她总是摇着她的尾巴跑到我的怀里撒娇。 - 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。 - 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。