英:[ˈtetʃi]
美:[ˈtɛtʃi]
英:[ˈtetʃi]
美:[ˈtɛtʃi]
比较级:tetchier
最高级:tetchiest
Adjective
1. easily irritated or annoyed;
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
"not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
"易怒的",1592年, teachie,在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》I.iii.32中出现; 起源不明。可能源自中古英语 tatch "一个标记,品质",通过古法语从通俗拉丁语 *tecca 派生而来,源自与古英语 tacen 相似的日耳曼语源(参见 token(名词))。
perhaps from obsolete tetch habit
The first known use of tetchy was in 1596
1 He is not the soul of patience — who could be, with such a tetchy grown kid around the house? — but he is not going anywhere.
2 The solemnity..had developed into a tetchy anxiety.
3 The complex play-within-a-play structure allowed Griffiths to portray both Auden – the apostle of freedom and intellectual bully – and a tetchy actor worried about his lines and missing a lucrative voiceover engagement.
4 But relations between America and Britain in Afghanistan have been tetchy.
但美英在阿富汗的关系说变就变。
5 The former pro proved herself almost as tetchy as the head judge, even when it came to judging her brother, Derek Hough.
6 Herda assures the tetchy man that neither he nor Aline believes Solness to be a madman, but by the end of this unpersuasive production, the audience may draw a different conclusion.
7 Stairs were often impossible, and the pain made him tetchy and difficult to live with.
8 There is a moment in the first season of “The Crown” when the actor Matt Smith, as the perennially tetchy consort of Queen Elizabeth II, bristles at the constraints of his job.
9 But so do the sounds themselves — tetchy and bristling, while evincing an inspiring level of unity and compassion.
10 With the home support a bit tetchy and in no mood for Christmas cheer, the big man was booed.
11 Julian gave a tetchy sigh.
12 An exhaustive exposé in the literary magazine n+1 raised the temperature, and the current issue of the New York Review of Books contains page after page of tetchy point v counterpoint.
13 But Mr Obama, so far, has been much more diplomatic, urging only dialogue between the two tetchy neighbours.
迄今为止,奥巴马对于这个问题还只是说些外交辞令,要求双方进行会谈。
14 The night before the Channel swim, a Sunday, Jim was tetchy.
15 The rap battle and poetry slams take place in settings that are brightly lit and — a few tetchy spats between rivals romantic and artistic notwithstanding — relaxed.
16 Perhaps he and you are presenting these “microaggressions” because he thinks he provided readers with a “trigger warning” that we are about to read “the tetchy topic of religion.”
17 Joshua, 34, appeared relaxed at Monday's grand arrivals and a little tetchy at the open workouts the following day.
18 But for anyone hoping to hear classical music done well, tetchy reviewers included, huge outdoor events are as much trials to be endured as treats to be savored.
19 His drop of Rohit Sharma on the first morning proved crucial, he was tetchy about India running on the pitch and Spidercam on day two, then his shot sparked England's collapse.
20 But relations between America and Britain in Afghanistan have been tetchy.
但美英在阿富汗的关系说变就变.
3 暴躁
fiery edgy irritable flaming peppery petulant ratty waspish bile cranky ill touchy hot-tempered short-tempered snippy snappish testy humorsome peevishly fretfully grumpily snappily testily tetchily temper irritability edginess petulance testiness snappiness biliousness aggressive passionate explosive waspishly touchily touchiness tetchiness waspishness atrabilious volatile stormy snappy fractious choleric hot irascible dyspeptic temperament
4 棘手的
tight delicate sticky awkward troublesome prickly techie thorny touchy spiny knotty untoward ticklish knobby tricksy scabrous difficile
5 暴躁的
fiery edgy irritable flaming peppery petulant ratty waspish cranky ill touchy hot-tempered short-tempered snippy snappish testy humorsome stroppy ignorant feisty fractious crabby irascible bilious bad-tempered aggressive passionate explosive atrabilious volatile stormy snappy choleric whiny narky hot dyspeptic
6 动辄发怒的
7 易怒的
hot quick warm cross sharp passionate savage fiery irritable prickly techie touchy resentful spiky temperamental biliary streaky chippy petulant fractious raspy crabby thin-skinned irascible bristly snippy crabbed peckish gingery choleric fretful bilious stroppy snarly peevish snaky hoity-toity waspish testy twitty splenetic pindling snuffy sorehead fretty unequable spleenful stomachy spleenish tempersome humorsome soreheaded iracund sour tense edgy snappy peppery ratty apoplectic snappish quick-tempered querulous liverish on a short fuse on edge hot-brained sensitive ugly brittle hasty brash ticklish hot-headed hot-tempered short-tempered ill-tempered hot-blooded rasped pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored irritability scratchy ignorant crusty cranky combustible feisty grouchy crotchety bad-tempered short-fused a short fuse worrisome vinegary huffy atrabilious cross as two sticks uptight nervous crook waxy out of sorts narky excitable curmudgeonly crankous acid moody spunky techy dyspeptic roily passional grouty acidulated highty-tighty
8 容易生气
10 过度敏感的
12 易怒
hot quick warm cross sharp passionate savage fiery irritable prickly techie touchy resentful spiky temperamental biliary streaky chippy petulant fractious raspy crabby thin-skinned irascible bristly snippy crabbed peckish gingery choleric fretful bilious stroppy snarly peevish snaky hoity-toity waspish testy twitty splenetic pindling snuffy sorehead fretty unequable spleenful stomachy spleenish tempersome humorsome soreheaded iracund sour petulance petulancy tense edgy snappy peppery ratty apoplectic snappish quick-tempered querulous liverish irascibility dyspeptic on a short fuse on edge hot-brained sensitive ugly brittle hasty brash ticklish hot-headed hot-tempered short-tempered ill-tempered hot-blooded rasped pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored passionately edgily querulously pettishly waspishly tetchily crabbily irritability fieriness have a short temper cranky worrisome combustible feisty vinegary huffy atrabilious cross as two sticks uptight nervous crook crusty waxy crotchety bad-tempered temper out of sorts narky short-fused short excitable curmudgeonly crankous acid moody spunky techy roily passional grouty acidulated highty-tighty testiness