“What does he come here cheeking us for, then?” cried Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament

“他干嘛来咱们这儿撒野?”基德敏士特大发脾气地叫道。

Byron’s father, by his first marriage, had a daughter, Augusta, Byron’s half-sister. His father’s second wife, Byron’s own mother, was a proud, irascible , Calvinistic Scotswoman named Catherine Gordon of Gight.

拜伦的父亲第一次结婚以后生了一个女儿，名叫奥古斯塔，即拜伦的同父异母姐姐。他父亲的第二个妻子，即拜伦的亲生母亲，是一个高傲的、性情暴躁的、卡尔文教派的苏格兰盖特这个地方的妇女，名叫凯瑟琳·戈登。

an irascible manner

发怒的样子.

His father paused and looked backDthe harsh level stare beneath the shaggy, graying, irascible brows

父亲停了下来，回过头去――在那灰白而又易怒的两道浓眉下面，一双严厉的眼睛直盯看他。

She knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary

她知道这个暴跳如雷的老绅士话说得再凶，也不会用一根指头打他的孙子。

That hiss, faint as it was, irritated the irascible David

那嘘声，虽然很轻，却惹火了暴躁的戴维。

a peevish, irascible person; a grouch.

脾气暴躁易怒的人;爱发牢骚的人

irascible words

气话.

His father’s second wife, Byron’s own mother, was a proud, irascible , Calvinistic Scotswoman named Catherine Gordon of Gight

他父亲的第二个妻子，即拜伦的亲生母亲，是一个高傲的、性情暴躁的、卡尔文教派的苏格兰盖特这个地方的妇女，名叫凯瑟琳·戈登。

He was an irascible man.

他是个脾气暴躁的人。

an irascible old man

性情暴躁的老人.

Easily irritated or annoyed;irascible .

易被激怒或暴躁的;易怒的

Why the young rancher, irascible , obstinate, belligerent, should invariably defer to the poet, was an inconsistency never to be explained

这位年轻的农庄主人，脾气急躁，生性固执，动不动喜欢吵架，竟然会始终对这诗人唯命是听，真是一个无从解释的矛盾。

||1:This anecdote, recounted in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, is one of only a few tales in print that offer an insight into the management style of Mr Cook, who took over from Jobs shortly before he died of cancer in October 2011.||2:It is telling. While Jobs, the irascible creative genius behind Apple’s bestselling products, stole the show, Mr Cook, who is both courtly and deeply private, plugged away behind the scenes to cement a relationship crucial to Apple’s soaring success: that with China.

||1:在沃尔特?艾萨克森为苹果创始人史蒂夫?乔布斯撰写的传记中，讲述了这段轶事。这是为数不多的能让人们深入了解库克管理风格的故事之一。乔布斯于2011年10月因癌症去世，在此之前不久，库克接替了乔布斯的职位。||2:这段记述很写实。乔布斯是苹果最畅销产品背后暴躁的创新天才，抢尽风头，而库克则在幕后埋头巩固一种关系：与中国的关系。

||1:The 31-year-old former prosecutor has inherited the Kennedy smile and the voluminous Kennedy hair (his is red; he looks more Irish than his forefathers did).||2:But winning the seat, which stretches from the Rhode Island border to the outskirts of Boston, is not going to be easy.||3:It is no longer the same district which for three decades voted by mostly wide margins for Barney Frank, recently the irascible head of the House Financial Services Committee.||4:Redistricting has reconfigured the historically blue district to include conservative strongholds, while losing New Bedford, a Democratic bastion.||5:Indeed Mr.

||1:这位现年31岁的前检察官俨然继承了肯尼迪家族的微笑和浓密的头发(他满头红发，使他比自己的祖辈看上去更像爱尔兰裔)。||2:马萨诸塞州选区从罗得岛延伸到波士顿市郊，要赢得这一选区席位，却并非易事。||3:这个选区早已不是昔日那个三十年以来绝大多数选票都投给巴尼?弗兰克的选区了，如今这位性情暴躁的弗兰克成为了众议院金融服务委员会的主席。||4:选区的再划分使保守党的据点并入了历史上的蓝区，而失去了民主党的堡垒重镇新贝德福德，整个选区重新组合。||5:弗兰克确实也没有在寻求连任，部分原因在于他估计了下，获得325,000新选民的支持，还需要150万到200万美元的筹款。

This is partly thanks to Alec Baldwin’s parody of the president as an irascible halfwit.

这在一定程度上归因于亚力克.鲍德温的拙劣模仿，他将总统模仿成一个易怒的笨蛋。

David Axelrod, the Obama campaign manager, called him “peevish” ; another official opted for “irascible ” .

奥巴马竞选经理戴维•艾克斯罗德（DavidAxelrod）说麦凯恩“易怒”，还有一位官员说他“爱发脾气”。

Donald Duck - the irascible but unflappable waterfowl - prepared to be feted in grand fashion, as he turned 75 years old Tuesday.

本周二是唐老鸭的75岁生日，这位脾气暴躁却镇定自若的鸭先生将迎来盛大的生日庆典。

Lately, it has been more like an irascible marriage between those who wish to cut taxes fast and those who do not.

但最近，这个政府变得更像是减税支持者和反对减税者之间暴躁的联姻。

To his enemies: indecisive, irascible , lacking the human touch.

对于他的敌人，他是优柔寡断、性情暴躁和难以相处。

the irascible , autocratic Ford would prove as inept a chief executive in his later years as he had been brilliant in his youth.

而事实证明，性情暴躁且专横的福特虽然年轻时才华横溢，但到了晚年却变成了一个无能的首席执行官。

Michael Bloomberg has been such a hit as mayor that normally irascible New Yorkers have elected him to a third term.

迈克尔•布隆伯格作为市长曾经轰动一时，挑剔的纽约人已经选了他做到第三任。

Mr Prescott’s punch reminded voters that he was irascible and unreconstructed.

普雷斯科特的对打，提醒了选民他脾气暴躁思想古板。

He is childish and irascible , passionate, methodical, and sensitive.

他天真幼稚却容易暴躁，为人热情，做事有条不紊却又非常敏感。

Donald Duck - the irascible but unflappablewaterfowl - prepared to be feed in grand fashion, as he turned 75 years old Tuesday.

唐老鸭的75岁生日，这位脾气暴躁却镇定自若的鸭先生将迎来盛大的生日庆典。

Mr Zardari is willing to have most of the judges back, but not their irascible leader, Iftikhar Chaudhry.

扎尔达里乐于恢复大多数被解职法官的职务，但不包括易怒的首席大法官提哈尔·乔杜里。

irascible temperament

性情急躁