ornery
英 ['ɔːnərɪ]
美['ɔrnəri]
- adj. 坏脾气的；低劣的
中文词源
ornery 脾气暴躁的，闹别扭的
来自ordinary方言缩写，词义由普通的引申为劣质的，粗糙的，后用于形容人脾气坏的，闹别扭的。
英英释意
- 1. having a difficult and contrary disposition;
- "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
英文词源
- ornery (adj.)
- 1816, American English dialectal contraction of ordinary (adj.). "Commonplace," hence "of poor quality, coarse, ugly." By c. 1860 the sense had evolved to "mean, cantankerous." Related: Orneriness.
实用场景例句
- It is mostly because we're mean and ornery.
- 多半是因为我们小心眼,有点固执.
辞典例句
- I got to go to church and sweat and sweat -- I hate them ornery sermons!
- 我还得去做礼拜,弄得浑身是汗 —— 我恨那些一文不值的布道辞!
英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
- When he was 16 when is ornery shoots carves the hero!
- 当他十六岁时已是威名远播的射雕英雄了!
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- It's aid that Lao ornery good terms with the minister.
- 据说老张和那个部长的关系特别好.
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- I'm nasty, I'm old, and a little bit ornery.
- 我有点儿惹人讨厌, 岁数又大,还有点爱唠叨.
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- But they seem to be becoming more ornery.
- 然而他们看起来脾气变得越来越大.
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- On top of that, the tools themselves were almost universally immature and ornery.
- 其中最严重的是, 这些工具几乎普遍都不够成熟,性能也一般.
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- The first three med students are ornery because they have been waiting for 11 minutes.
- 前三个医学学生很生气,因为他们等了我十一分钟了.
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- Nathan is so ornery in the morning that he never answers his phone.
- 纳单早上情绪最差,他从来不接电话.
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