querulous

[美國]/ˈkwerələs/
[英國]/ˈkwerələs/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

adj. 抱怨的,易怒的,愛發牢騷的

例句

a querulous voice; querulous comments.

不滿的聲音;不滿的評論

she became querulous and demanding.

她變得牢騷滿腹,吹毛求疵。

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

那個愛抱怨的老人不肯讓人撇在一邊。

The querulous customer complained about the service.

愛抱怨的顧客抱怨服務。

She had a querulous tone in her voice.

她說話聲音帶有抱怨的口氣。

The querulous child kept asking for more candy.

那個愛抱怨的孩子一直要求更多糖果。

His querulous attitude made it difficult to work with him.

他愛抱怨的態度讓和他合作變得困難。

The querulous old man was never satisfied with anything.

那個愛抱怨的老人對任何事情都不滿意。

The querulous tone in her email was off-putting.

她郵件中的抱怨口氣讓人反感。

Her querulous nature often led to conflicts with her colleagues.

她愛抱怨的性格經常導致與同事之間的衝突。

The querulous dog barked incessantly at the mailman.

那隻愛抱怨的狗對着送信人不停地吠叫。

The querulous student always had something to complain about.

那個愛抱怨的學生總是有什麼事情要抱怨。

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

儘管她愛抱怨,但她仍然受朋友喜愛。

原聲例句

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

忽然間,他失望地尖聲喊了起來。

來源: The Sign of the Four

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

她的唯一生存條件是情緒高漲, 根據情況變得暴躁或喧鬧。

來源: 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.

六點鐘悄悄降臨,拐角處響起了聖安妮鐘聲的牢騷旋律。

來源: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

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

人們在被子裏享受睡眠,不論他是個易怒的人還是個安靜的人。

來源: Pan Pan

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

難道我不應該陷入怨天尤人的自憐的最低谷, 匍匐在那裏, 眼睛頑固地避開上面的光嗎?

來源: 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, 而他的母親看着他, 她的臉鬆弛而牢騷, 沒完沒了,洞察力又遲鈍。

來源: 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.

她的聲音充滿怨言, 幾乎是淚流滿面,我意識到在整個五十個街區的時間裏, 她也在腦海中排練了一場爭論。

來源: 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.

前所未見的繁榮,前所未見的權力,前所未見的速度,只有流星才能達到的速度,讓這個世界變得急躁、緊張、牢騷、不可理喻和恐懼。

來源: 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.

但是亞當沒有再下來;他太累了,再也無法忍受他母親抱怨的悲痛,他就去牀上休息了。

來源: 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.

但黛娜在他腦海中的存在只會幫助他更好地忍受他母親的情緒, 在過去的一個小時裏, 他的情緒變得越來越暴躁。

來源: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

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