In a grouchy mood

怀着不满情绪.

He tends to get grouchy when he’s tired.

他疲倦时很容易发脾气。

I don’t feel like myself today-I’m so grouchy .

我今天情绪不好，总想发脾气。

Is there any way to sweeten up his grouchy disposition?

有什么办法能让他不满的情绪变成愉快呢?

||1:Yet some analysts expect productivity growth to stall soon.||2:Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy : workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.||3:Many firms have been “starving the organisation to see how it can do with a lower cost structure,” says Carsten Stendevad of Citigroup, a bank.||4:Unless the economy picks up, he predicts that productivity growth will slow in 2012.

||1:但有些分析师认为生产率不久将停止增长。||2:重重压力令产业工人们牢骚不断：劳动力调查显示出对工作表示不满的人数创了纪录。||3:Citigroup银行的Carsten Stendevad说，很多公司正“忍饥挨饿”，以 “测试自身在低成本状态下的生存能力”。||4:他预计，只要经济形势没有好转，2012年生产率增长就会放缓（但他也承认自己曾错误地对2011年的情况做过同样的判断）。

The first is lack of sleep. A growing body of evidence shows that shortage of shut-eye cripples individuals and poisons organisations. One study shows that staying awake for 20 hours has the same impact on the performance of various cognitive tasks as a blood-alcohol level of 0.1%, well over the limit for driving a car in most countries. Another study shows that being deprived of sleep leads people to adopt a more negative attitude or tone of voice.|| Employees are also more likely to report disengagement from work if a bad night’s sleep makes their bosses grouchy .||

1:首先是睡眠不足。||2:越来越多的证据显示，缺乏合眼的时间不单让身体虚弱，更会对公司造成不良影响。||3:一项研究表明，连续20小时不睡觉对各种认知任务的影响相当于血液里0.1%的酒精含量，而这大大超过了大多数国家的驾车限度。||4:另一项研究表明，缺乏睡眠让人们的态度和说话的语气都更为负面。||5:如果老板晚上睡得不好导致心情不佳，员工离职的可能性也会更高。

Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy : workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.

重重压力令产业工人们牢骚不断：劳动力调查显示出对工作表示不满的人数创了纪录。

I’d landed at the Brisbane international airport and everyone was a bit grouchy and stiff from the long flight.

当飞机降落在澳大利亚布里斯班国际机场，在经历了漫长的履行后，所有人都觉得身体僵僵的并且想要发脾气。

grouchy : bad-tempered and often complaining

脾气不好并常发牢骚的；好抱怨的

And if you have a bad commute on the way home, you’ll probably still be grouchy by the time you go to bed.

如果你是在回家路上遇到，你也许就到上床之前都一直会闷闷不乐。

They linked his grouchy performance to broader criticism of his allegedly “erratic” temperament.

他们将他暴躁的表现与外界对他性情“反复无常”的广泛批评联系起来。