Little Walder only looked peevish. " And me, " he said. " I was only being amusing too" .

小瓦德却还在闹脾气。" 我嘛，" 说，" 我也只是觉得好玩。"

When you come home from school, and find your little brother cross and peevish, speak mildly to him.

放学回家时，你若发现小弟弟蛮横暴躁，就温和地同讲话。

" By rights I should have my sister's command, " he admitted, uncomfortably aware of how peevish that sounded.

" 按照权利，我姐姐任务本该给我。" 承认，同时不安地意识声音有几分暴躁。

Conway smiled, but Mallinson looked peevish again.

康威笑了笑， 但马林森看起来又一次暴躁。

Her face was inartistic—that of a peevish virago.

她脸毫无艺术气息——就像一个暴躁处女座。

If he were less peevish and morose, all would be well.

如果不那么暴躁和忧郁， 一切都会好起来。

He was peevish and had peerless strength.

很易怒并有着无可匹敌气力。

I went my way perhaps a wiser but certainly a peevish man.

我走了路， 也许是一个更聪明但肯定是一个暴躁人。

For she was a straight, brave woman, as well as a peevish one.

因为她是一个直率、勇敢女人， 也是一个脾气暴躁女人。

Before he had quite sunken away, however, the sharp and peevish tinkle of the shop-bell made itself audible.

然而，在沉下去之前， 商店铃声尖锐而恼人叮当声响起。

It was not surprising that Mrs. Honeychurch disapproved of music, declaring that it always left her daughter peevish, unpractical, and touchy.

。 霍尼彻奇夫人不喜欢音乐也就不足为奇了， 她宣称音乐总是让她女儿脾气暴躁、不切实际且易怒。

Miss Minchin was as harsh and insulting as ever, Miss Amelia as peevish, and the servants were as vulgar and rude.

明钦小姐一如既往严厉和侮辱，阿米莉亚小姐还是一如既往暴躁，而仆人一如既往粗俗和粗鲁。

" Yes--very foolish: as if I took notice! " replied Catherine in a peevish tone. " And where is the sense of that? "

“是，很傻气，好像我会注意似！”凯瑟琳回答，怨声怨气。“那又有什么意思呢？”

I at once answered the count seriously, taking up the political question, and managing his peevish spirit with the utmost care.

我立即严肃地回答了伯爵问题， 开始讨论政治问题， 并极其小心地控制着暴躁情绪。

They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.

们不仅固执见、脾气暴躁、贪婪、阴郁、虚荣、健谈，而且没有友谊，而且对所有然感情都死了，这种感情从不低于们孙子孙女。

The one thing—the one person—her mind had rested on in its dull weariness, had slipped away from her, and peevish misery filled her eyes with tears.

一件事——一个人——她思绪在沉闷疲倦中停留，从她身边溜走，愤怒痛苦使她眼睛充满了泪水。

" I waited for you the other night." I sounded like my mother reproaching my father when he came home inexplicably late. I never knew I could sound so peevish.

“前天晚上我等了你好久。”听起来就像我母亲在责备无故晚归父亲。我从来不知道我也会用这么暴躁语气说话。

If a tear—a maiden's sunshiny tear over imaginary woe—dropped upon some melancholy page, Clifford either took it as a token of actual calamity, or else grew peevish, and angrily motioned her to close the volume.

如果一滴眼泪——一个少女为想象中痛苦而流下阳光般眼泪——落在忧郁书页上， 克利福德要么将其视为实际灾难象征， 要么变得暴躁， 并愤怒地示意她合上这本书。

Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical. A few words from her, evincing a dislike to Heathcliff, were enough to rouse in him all his old hatred of the boy.

但是不多久，她这种喜爱劲头就退 了。当她变得乖戾时候，辛德雷也变得暴虐了。她只要吐出几个字，暗示不喜欢希刺克厉夫，这就足以把对这孩子旧恨都勾起来。

And my father said reproachfully: " Barbe, you're a holy and worthy woman, but many a time I have noticed that you have a peevish liking to throw yourself thoughtlessly into serious conversation like a dog into a game of skittles" .

父亲责备地说：“芭比，你是一个圣洁而可敬女人，但很多时候我发现你有一种脾气暴躁爱好，喜欢不假思索地投入严肃谈话中，就像一只狗投入九柱游戏中一样”。