curmudgeon
curmudgeon 英 [kɜ:ˈmʌdʒən] 美 [kɜrˈmʌdʒən]
n. 脾气坏的人，乖戾的人；吝啬鬼；存心不良的人
名词复数:curmudgeons
- Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the gruff, grey-haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy at Halloween and shoos away holiday carolers with a "bah humbug!"
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- n. 脾气坏的人，乖戾的人；吝啬鬼；存心不良的人
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1. Indeed, whereas a young curmudgeon has no heart, an old idealist has no head.
的确，一个年轻的乖戾之人没有善心，一个年老的理想主义者没有头脑。
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2. His last industry job was with IBM Rational Software, where he was known as "the RUP curmudgeon" and was also a member of the original Rational Suite team.
他最后一个工业界的工作是从事IBM Rational 软件，在那里，他被称作是“the RUP Curmudgeon”，他还是最初Rational套件团队的一员。
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3. Only a curmudgeon would deny the many benefits that our computers and electronic networks have brought us.
只有一个被我们称为脾气暴躁的老头置疑了电脑、手机带给我们的好处。
- curmudgeon (n.) 1570s, of unknown origin; the suggestion, based on a misreading of a garbled note from Johnson, that it is from French coeur mechant "evil heart" is not taken seriously; the first syllable may be cur "dog." Liberman says the word "must have been borrowed from Gaelic (and references muigean "disagreeable person"), with variant spelling of intensive prefix ker-. Related: Curmudgeonly.
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