Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.

一直以来，恼长和投机政客都担心电子游戏玩会变得懒惰倦怠，或性情多变、暴躁乖戾。

Joseph was a very old servant, with a sour expression on his face.

约瑟夫是个很老仆人，脸上表情乖戾。

No matter how surly, unpredictable or ungrateful Vincent was, every month, regular as clockwork, the brotherly subsidy rolled in.

不管梵高有多么乖戾、难以捉摸和毫不领情，每个月他弟弟都会准时寄来补助金。

But it had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse.

但是在长期放逐中，在被囚禁黑暗中，这颗心脏已经变得异样，它欲望变得凶猛而乖戾。

Given that there are at least 43,678 species of the critters, though, it is not too surprising that a few have overcome their natural grumpiness and teamed up to form societies.

不过考虑到这种生物至少有43678种，有那么几种能克服天生乖戾性情结群而居也就不足为奇。

I mean what you want a father to be is someone to be a taskmaster, in a way, but to teach you in the most loving—but he was a terrible curmudgeon.

我意是在某种程度上，你想要父亲是一个监督者形象，但是以最慈爱方式教导你——但他是一个可怕、乖戾人。

Its instantaneous comic book associations give it a zippy, ebullient, jaunty-little-boy flare. Unless you're the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker, of course, but even he has his place in the pop culture hall of fame.

它与漫画书即时联系赋予其一种活泼、热情、洋洋得意小男孩形象。当然，除非你是脾气乖戾阿奇·邦克，但即使是他也在流行文化名人堂中占有一席之。

But if anyone cross and disagreeable happened to sip, he was pretty certain to twist his face into a hard knot and call it a pitcher of sour milk!

但是任何一个性情乖戾不友好人碰巧来喝一口，他肯定会一脸难受表情，并且会说那罐牛奶馊！

Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.

比利有一个毛病, 他脾气好过头, 而乔却恰恰相反, 乖戾而内向, 完吠叫, 还有一副恶狠狠眼神。

Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

即使是那些令人悲哀、乖戾大姐姐们。也请你们善待她们，如果不是为别原因，至少也为她们错过生命中最为甜蜜阶段。

Mark Twain has a similar effect, and we connect him with a smarmy, witty, affectionately curmudgeonly type of writing.

马克·吐温(Mark Twain)名声也不例外，我们常把这位作与谄媚、诙谐、亲切、乖戾写作风格联系在一起。

He had almost seemed like a human being and not the perverse wretch she knew so well.

他几乎真像个有良心好人，而不是她所熟悉乖戾坏蛋。

He could also be immature, thoughtless, and capricious, even perverse.

他可能也表现得幼稚、轻率、反复无常，甚至有些乖戾。

Lydgate said, " Very well, " with a surly obedience, and thus the discussion ended with his promising Rosamond, and not with her promising him.

利德盖特说：“很好， ” 带着乖戾顺从， 因此讨论以他对罗莎蒙德承诺结束， 而不是她对他承诺。

I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish.

我已解她全部品性，那毫无神秘或伪装可言：她爱卖俏，但并不无情；她苛求，但并非自私自利；她从小被宠坏，但并未养成乖戾性情。

Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.

然而我认为，这种缺陷主要源于它们乖戾倔强性格；因为它们狡猾、恶意、奸诈且好报复。

He had no other opportunity: for the Jew remained very surly and silent till night: when he prepared to go abroad.

他有其他机会：因为犹太人一直到晚上都非常乖戾和沉默：当他准备出国时。

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 。当她变得乖戾时候，辛德雷也变得暴虐。她只要吐出几个字，暗示不喜欢希刺克厉夫，这就足以把他对这孩子旧恨全都勾起来。

" I have really sometimes been a perverse fellow, " he went on, " but I will never again, if I can help it, do or say what you would disapprove." " That is very good of you, " said Dorothea, with another open smile.

“我有时真是个乖戾伙，”他接着说，“但是，如果我能帮得上忙话，我再也不会做或说你不赞成事。“你真是太好，”多萝西娅说，又露出灿烂笑容。

And what a distortion in your judgment, what a perversity in your ideas, is proved by your conduct!

你行为证明你判断力有多么扭曲，你观念有多么乖戾！