querulous

英 [ˈkwerələs]

美 [ˈkwerələs]

adj.  抱怨的; 显得恼怒的

GRETEM8

BNC.34296 / COCA.31183

牛津词典

adj.

• 抱怨的；显得恼怒的
  complaining; showing that you are annoyed

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 牢骚满腹的;爱抱怨的
  Someone who isquerulousoften complains about things.
  1. A querulous male voice said, 'Look, are you going to order, or what?'
     一个男人不满地问：“喂，你到底要不要点菜？”

英英释义

adj

• habitually complaining
  1. a whiny child
  Synonym:fretfulwhineywhiny

双语例句

• People get rude and whiny and exacting when they are exhausted. One gets unsettled, depressed, and inclined to be querulous.
  人在筋疲力尽的时候会变得粗暴、爱发牢骚而苛求。有的人变得心绪不宁，神情沮丧，动不动就爱发牢骚。
• And thus it is that time goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it, and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
  因此，在我把时间让给每一个性急的，向我索要时间的人，我们的时间就虚度了，最后你的神坛上就没有一点祭品。
• A querulous male voice said, 'Look, are you going to order, or what?'
  一个男人不满地问：“喂，你到底要不要点菜？”
• One gets unsettled, depressed, and inclined to be querulous.
  有的人变得心绪不宁，神情沮丧，动不动就爱发牢骚。
• Years of being an underpaid and underappreciated factory worker had made him into a querulous, bitter old man.
  多年来身为一个低收入、低地位的工厂劳工，使他成为一个爱发牢骚、满腹委屈的老头。
• This temperament was soon tested in his dealings with fayed, whom he found to be a querulous employer insistent on perfection.
  这种性格在他与法耶德打交道不久后就遇到了考验，他发现法耶德是个脾气坏和吹毛求疵的老板。
• The querulous old man refused to be put on the shelf.
  那个爱抱怨的老人不肯让人撇在一边。
• He was not one who was inclined to be querulous.
  他并不是爱吹毛求疵的人。
• The clinical manifestations involve vertigo, headache, vexation, querulous, tinnitus and deafness, insomnia and dreamful sleep, and so on.
  其主要临床表现为眩晕，头痛，心烦易怒，耳鸣耳聋，失眠多梦等症状。
• The sighs of relief did not just come from Tim Geithner at the US Treasury, who was facing a querulous Congress and increasing pressure to label China a "currency manipulator".
  感到如释重负的不只是美国财长蒂姆盖特纳（timgeithner）美国国会对他感到不满，要求他将中国列为“汇率操纵国”的压力渐增。