crotchety
crotchety 英 [ˈkrɒtʃəti] 美 [ˈkrɑtʃəti]
adj. 有怪想的，想入非非的；反复无常的
名词复数:crotcheties
- The adjective crotchety describes someone who's difficult, irritable, and ornery. If you're crotchety, you complain and argue and are more or less miserable to be around.
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- adj. 有怪想的，想入非非的；反复无常的
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1. A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives.
很多老年人脾气暴躁，因为他们一辈子都在怨天尤人。
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2. A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.
正像我们可能在智利所说的一封长长的、脾气暴躁的书信：令人扫兴和易怒。
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3. Though still, the letters on the page live and breathe as the writer does, crotchety and shaky with old age, hectic with youth, comfortably embracing as a mother.
纸上的字母虽然平静地躺着，却像作者一样具有生命力，吐露着气息，他们反复无常，一会跟老人一起晃动着，一会又和年轻人一起兴奋着，一会又像母亲一样安乐地相拥在一起。
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