fretful

英 [ˈfretfl]

美 [ˈfretfl]

adj.  烦躁的; 苦恼的; 不舒适的

TEM8

BNC.24953 / COCA.27793

牛津词典

adj.

• 烦躁的；苦恼的；不舒适的
  behaving in a way that shows you are unhappy or uncomfortable

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 苦恼的;烦躁的
  If someone isfretful, they behave in a way that shows that they worried or unhappy about something.
  1. Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
     不要想当然地认为你的宝宝一闹就是要吃奶。

英英释义

adj

• habitually complaining
  1. a whiny child
  Synonym:querulouswhineywhiny
• nervous and unable to relax
  1. a constant fretful stamping of hooves
  2. a restless child
  Synonym:antsyfidgetyitchy

双语例句

• Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
  不要想当然地认为你的宝宝一闹就是要吃奶。
• But for all their professed joy at the spectacle, China's own leaders are fretful.
  尽管中国领导在公众场合表现得轻松愉快，实际上却心急如焚。
• She's always fretful and peevish like this, so just leave her alone.
  她动不动就闹小性儿，让她闹去，甭理她。
• Given what we had witnessed the day before, could I have destroyed our tenderness with fretful suspicions of being followed?
  想想我们昨天亲历的那一桩惨剧，我要不要说出自己感觉被人跟踪的烦躁疑心，来破坏我们之间的这份温存甜蜜？
• My baby brother is fretful because he is cutting his teeth.
  我的小弟弟焦躁不安因为他正在长牙。
• But Congress is in a dangerously fretful mood.
  但国会存在一种危险的焦躁情绪。
• China's banking regulator, however, is increasingly fretful, noting on Tuesday that rampant credit growth poses risks to the financial system.
  不过，中国银行业监管机构越来越感到担忧。该机构周二指出，迅猛的信贷增长对金融体系构成风险。
• Silence is golden if it keeps me from broadcasting that fretful self into my network of treasured relationships.
  如果安静能让我将那个烦躁的自我不波及到珍贵的关系中，那么它就是金。
• The March wind is fretful, fretting the languid waves into murmurs.
  三月的风躁动不安，惹得倦怠的波浪哗哗作响。
• By midnight the children were tired and fretful.
  到午夜时，孩子们既疲倦又烦躁不安。