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

直以来，恼怒的家长和投机的政客都担心电子游戏玩家会变得懒惰倦怠，或性情多变、暴躁乖戾。

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

约瑟夫个很老的仆人，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，每个月的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.

但在长期的放逐中，在被囚禁的黑暗中，这颗心脏已经变得异样，它的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.

不过考虑到这种生有43678种，有那么几种能克服天生乖戾的性情结群而居也就不足为奇了。

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.

我的意在某种程度上，你想要的父亲个监督者的形象，但以最慈爱的方式教导你——但个可怕的、乖戾的人。

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.

它与漫画书的即时联系赋予其种活泼、热情、洋洋得意的小男孩形象。当然，除非你脾气乖戾的阿奇·邦克，但即使也在流行文化的名人堂中占有席之地。

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!

但任何个性情乖戾的不友好的人碰巧来喝口，肯定会脸难受的表情，并且会说那罐牛奶馊了！

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.

比利有个毛病, 的脾气好过头了, 而乔却恰恰相反, 乖戾而内向, 没完没了地吠叫, 还有副恶狠狠的眼神。

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

即使那些令人悲哀的、乖戾的大姐姐们。也请你们善待她们，如果不为了别的原因，也为了她们错过了生命中最为甜蜜的阶段。

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)的名声也不例外，我们常把这位作家与谄媚、诙谐、亲切、乖戾的写作风格联系在起。

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

几乎真像个有良心的好人，而不她所熟悉的乖戾的坏蛋。

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

可能也表现得幼稚、轻率、反复无常，甚有些乖戾。

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， ” 带着乖戾的顺从， 因此讨论以对罗莎蒙德的承诺结束， 而不她对的承诺。

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

我已了解了她的全部品性，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，但并未养成乖戾的性情。

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的性格；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.

没有其机会：因为犹太人直到晚上都非常乖戾和沉默：当准备出国时。

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.

但不多久，她的这种喜爱劲头就退 了。当她变得乖戾的时候，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的旧恨全都勾起来。

" 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.

“我有时真个乖戾的家伙，”接着说，“但，如果我能帮得上忙的话，我再也不会做或说你不赞成的事了。“你真太好了，”多萝西娅说，又露出了灿烂的笑容。

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

你的行为证明了你的判断力有多么扭曲，你的观念有多么乖戾！