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frac·tious
fraek shs
fractiously (adv.), fractiousness (n.)
Adjective
1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control;
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
"a refractory child"
2. easily irritated or annoyed;
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
"not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
3. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome;
"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"
"fractious components of a communication system"
"易于争吵的," 1725年,来自 fraction 在一个过时的意义上,指“争吵,不和”(约1500年)+ -ous; 可能是以 captious 为模板。 相关: Fractiously; fractiousness。
fract(ion) (in sense "rupture, discord, breach of the peace") + -ious (after captious, factious)
The first known use of fractious was in 1714
1 Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.
孩子们疲倦时易怒好哭。
2 It is still fractious, and in many places corrupt.
它仍然是四分五裂的, 而且在很多方面腐朽不堪.
3 Hay Fever Theatre Palisades presents Nöel Coward's classic farce about a fractious theatrical family.
4 Fractious infighting left the cartel in disarray. Prices collapsed.
混战之后油价崩溃,欧佩克陷入困境.
5 Now Elizabeth's fractious circle of advisers gives her self-serving and conflicting advice on her next move.
6 That’s the bleak scenario at the Metropolitan Opera, where fractious labor negotiations threaten to disrupt the new season for the first time in more than 30 years.
7 For, as it turns out, the two Gabor sisters are even more interesting for the clan that enfolded them — a fractious, tightknit brood of Hungarian Jewish women who imagined themselves somewhere else.
8 Who knew that sleep researchers were such a fractious bunch?
9 Perdita’s internet stardom looks set to continue, with an Instagram account set up to chronicle the next chapter in the life of the fractious feline.
10 Not to mention the fact that fashion still has a somewhat fractious relationship with the current presidential administration.
11 As a starting point, we had a list of words: "implode", "fractious", "staccato", "frenetic", "fluidity" – that sort of thing.
12 That it doesn’t is a tribute to medicine, a profession that is as fractious as any other in an embattled world.
13 The film, conceived during a fractious era of the Vietnam war and Watergate hearings, became an escapist fable for a generation of frustrated Americans, he said.
14 Nepal has, in recent years, been an oasis of relative openness in an otherwise fractious region.
15 But his Substack is a place where a fractious world is rendered logical, where self-proclaimed moderates and rationalists find refuge from so-called purists and radicals.
16 Yet, for all this, what emerges powerfully is a vision of a kingdom that reaches for peace, mercy and justice but ends in fractious bloodshed.
17 Given that both are such strong visual mediums, video games and films have endured a surprisingly fractious relationship.
18 It’s full of rage, a fractious child screaming, “I hate you” at a parent.
19 Nostalgia for 70s era bohemia runs high, particularly in these fractious times.
20 He draws some sketchy but alarming parallels between Europe’s descent into disaster 100 years ago, and East Asia’s fractious security today, which is beset by a familiar cocktail of strident nationalism and brinkmanship.
2 暴躁
warm cross crusty ratty irascible waspish hotspur rampage atrabilious volatile fiery stormy snappy cranky peppery petulant hot-tempered choleric snappish tetchy testy bile hot explosive irritable dyspeptic temperament
4 暴躁的
stroppy ignorant feisty peppery crabby irascible bilious bad-tempered tetchy testy warm cross crusty ratty waspish hotspur atrabilious volatile fiery stormy snappy cranky petulant hot-tempered choleric snappish irritable whiny narky hot explosive dyspeptic foul volcanic hot-headed truculent
5 任性
self-asserting ramstam pervicacious wild selfish quirky heady willful unruly perverse cranky wayward wanton capricious rambunctious self-indulgent incalculable licentious harebrained self-willed self-assertive wilfully wantonly petulantly pettishly waywardly humor quirk selfishness overindulgence wantonness self-assertion waywardness wilfulness headiness self-will by fits and starts mad as a hare rackle arbitrary naughty impulsive indiscriminate wilful headstrong ramshackle obstreperous thrawn abandon freak whim caprice self-indulgence arbitrariness indiscrimination
6 乖张的
7 脾气坏的
grumpy moody bearish cranky feisty surly sullen bitchy morose cantankerous crotchety stroppy bad-tempered ill-natured shrewish shirty splenetic liverish out of sorts
8 任性的
self-asserting ramstam pervicacious wild selfish quirky heady willful unruly perverse cranky wayward wanton capricious rambunctious self-indulgent incalculable licentious harebrained self-willed self-assertive by fits and starts mad as a hare rackle arbitrary naughty impulsive indiscriminate wilful headstrong ramshackle obstreperous thrawn self-will
10 易怒的
hot-brained sensitive passionate ugly fiery brittle edgy irritable hasty brash touchy peppery temperamental ratty raspy thin-skinned ticklish irascible hot-headed hot-tempered bristly short-tempered choleric ill-tempered hot-blooded tetchy quick-tempered hoity-toity waspish testy rasped splenetic pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored stomachy tempersome irritability tense snappy prickly spiky crabby apoplectic bilious peevish snappish querulous liverish on a short fuse on edge scratchy snuffy ignorant crusty cranky combustible feisty chippy grouchy crabbed crotchety bad-tempered snaky short-fused a short fuse huffish narky warm worrisome petulant vinegary huffy fretful stroppy atrabilious humorsome cross as two sticks uptight quick cross nervous crook waxy out of sorts excitable curmudgeonly crankous acid moody resentful spunky streaky techy dyspeptic roily pindling passional grouty acidulated unequable highty-tighty iracund hot sharp savage techie biliary snippy peckish gingery snarly twitty sorehead fretty spleenful spleenish soreheaded sour
12 易怒
hot-brained sensitive passionate ugly fiery brittle edgy irritable hasty brash touchy peppery temperamental ratty raspy thin-skinned ticklish irascible hot-headed hot-tempered bristly short-tempered choleric ill-tempered hot-blooded tetchy quick-tempered hoity-toity waspish testy rasped splenetic pettish umbrageous miffy snorty red-necked ireful ill-humored stomachy tempersome passionately edgily querulously pettishly waspishly tetchily crabbily irritability irascibility fieriness have a short temper tense snappy prickly spiky crabby apoplectic bilious peevish snappish querulous liverish dyspeptic on a short fuse on edge huffish crusty scratchy crabbed bad-tempered narky irritably peevishness warm cranky worrisome combustible feisty petulant vinegary huffy fretful stroppy atrabilious humorsome petulance cross as two sticks uptight quick cross nervous crook waxy chippy crotchety snaky snuffy temper out of sorts short-fused short excitable curmudgeonly crankous acid moody resentful spunky streaky techy roily pindling passional grouty acidulated unequable highty-tighty iracund testiness petulancy hot sharp savage techie biliary snippy peckish gingery snarly twitty sorehead fretty spleenful spleenish soreheaded sour
13 叛逆的
14 惹是生非
15 麻烦
onerous bothersome fiddly problem matter trouble bother hassle tribulation mischief palaver schtuck impose inconvenience
16 坏脾气的
19 难驾驭
20 倔强的
game rank stiff stubborn perverse refractory intractable headstrong untoward dour peevish stiff-necked thrawn cross-grained indocile hard-mouthed rantankerous recalcitrant
21 捣乱的
22 难驾驭的
intractable stubborn unruly refractory hardmouthed salty rusty randy impracticable cantankerous restive churlish obstreperous froward rantankerous
23 倔强
game rank stiff stubborn perverse refractory intractable headstrong untoward dour peevish stiff-necked thrawn cross-grained indocile hard-mouthed rantankerous refractorily recalcitrant perversity crustiness indocility
24 惹是生非的
26 难控制的
27 麻烦的