As an executive, Jobs has sometimes been petulant and harsh on subordinates.

作为管理人员，乔布斯有时候对待下属是脾、严苛无情。

Oh, I'm sorry. Was that petulant, too?

真抱歉 我又无理取闹了？

Now, now, now, Bo, don't be so petulant.

听着 波 别这么。

It was to him I was to tell it, he repeated with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man.

他十足地表现了老人易怒和顽固态度。他道：我只能告诉他本人。

He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him with a story that was too revealing.

那个时候他脾就不太好，他攻击《时代》杂志一名记者，因为对方报道一个故事露了太多事实而让他得受到了伤害。

She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs.

烦词句时不时地从她嘴里冒出来，中间还夹杂着声声叹息，叹息之际又有突然静听。

Ferdinand E. Warren, a commercial artist, used this technique to win the good will of a petulant, scolding buyer of art.

费迪南德·E。沃伦从事商业艺术设计，曾运用上述技巧赢得了一位脾古怪、总爱吹毛求疵买家好感。

And I love the petulant, spoiled nature of him.

我喜欢他任性、被宠坏本性。

Puffed up with petulant rage, the boy yelled back that he would get even.

怒男孩大声回敬，扬言要报复。

They're the most petulant I've ever met!

他们是我见过最任性！

He called her a petulant child that needed to be punished.

他称她为一个需要受到惩罚任性孩子。

The petulant child in this case being the governor of Maine.

在这种情况下，“任性孩子”指是缅因州州长。

Coleman was talking on the phone, his voice occasionally rising in a petulant whine.

科尔曼正在打电话，声音时而因不耐烦而变得尖细刺耳。

" I want this and that right now" like petulant children.

" 我现在就想要这个和那个" , 就像任性孩子一样。

Come on. Don't be petulant. Just pick up the stupid can.

拜托, 别任性, 拿起那个愚蠢罐头就好。

A hardworking president, Truman sometimes overdid it, becoming tart and petulant when he was tired.

杜鲁门是一位勤奋总统，他有时会做得过头，累了就变得酸涩和任性。

An opposing nation, yes; a petulant colony, no.

一个敌对国家, 是;一个任性殖民地, 不。

Handsome, petulant, short, not pleasant until after ten am.

英俊，脾，个子矮，上午十点后才令人愉快。

She drank until Prissy's petulant: " Well, Ah's thusty, too, Miss Scarlett, " made her recall the needs of the others.

她喝个没完，旁边百里茜等急了：" 够了，思嘉姐，俺也渴着呢，" 这才提醒她想起别人也要喝。

His voice was squeaky and petulant, like that of a child who is suddenly forbidden a toy.

皱着眉头。 他声音嘶哑而， 就像一个突然被禁止玩玩具孩子。