1.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。

2.Conway smiled, but Mallinson looked peevish again.

康威笑了笑， 但马林森看起来又一次暴躁。机翻

3.He was peevish, and capricious, and notoriously thin-skinned.

脾气暴躁，反复无常，而且出了名的敏感。机翻

4.Her face was inartistic—that of a peevish virago.

她的脸毫无艺术气息——就像一个暴躁的处女座。机翻

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

如果不那么暴躁和忧郁， 一切都会好起来的。机翻

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

走了自己的路， 也许是一个更聪明但肯定是一个暴躁的人。机翻

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

因为她是一个直率、勇敢的女人， 也是一个脾气暴躁的女人。机翻

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

而，在完全沉下去之前， 商店铃声尖锐而恼人的叮当声响起。机翻

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

小瓦德却还在闹脾气。" 嘛，" 说，" 也只是觉得好玩。"

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

" 按照权利，姐姐的任务本该给。" 认，同时不安地意识到自己的声音有几分暴躁。

11.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的女儿脾气暴躁、不切实际且易怒。机翻

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

明钦小姐一如既往的严厉和侮辱，阿米莉亚小姐还是一如既往的暴躁，而仆人一如既往的粗俗和粗鲁。机翻

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

“是的，很傻气，好像会注意似的！”凯瑟琳回答，怨声怨气的。“那又有什么意思呢？”

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

立即严肃地回答了伯爵的问题， 开始讨论政治问题， 并极其小心地控制着的暴躁情绪。机翻

15.Harriet with her gloomy peevish creed, Lilia with her clutches after pleasure, were after all more divine than this well-ordered, active, useless machine.

有着阴郁暴躁信条的哈丽雅，贪图享乐的莉莉娅，毕竟比这台秩序井、活跃、无用的机器更神圣。机翻

16.(His last known political donation was $1,000 to Hillary Clinton in 2016.) But the Romanian has kept in character, complete with the peevish attitude and hammed-up accent.

(上一次为人所知的政治捐款是在2016向希拉里·克林顿捐赠了1000美元。)但这位罗马尼亚人一直保持着自己的性格，爱发牢骚，口音做作。

17.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.

们不仅固执己见、脾气暴躁、贪婪、阴郁、虚荣、健谈，而且没有友谊，而且对所有自的感情都死了，这种感情从不低于们的孙子孙女。机翻

18.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——她的思绪在沉闷的疲倦中停留，从她身边溜走，愤怒的痛苦使她的眼睛充满了泪水。机翻

19." 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.

“前天晚上等了你好久。”听起来就像的母亲在责备无故晚归的父亲。从来不知道也会用这么暴躁的语气说话。

20.For what we know must be, and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition Takeit to heart?

因为们知道的必须是，而且与任何最粗俗的事物一样普遍，为什么们要在们恼怒的反对中把它放在心上呢？机翻