" 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，像注意似的！”凯瑟琳回答，怨声怨气的。“那又有什么意思呢？”

" 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.

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

(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.

(他上一次为人所知的政治捐款是在2016年向希拉里·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。

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，就温和地同他讲话。

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

他脾气暴躁，反复无常，而且众所周知非常敏。

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.

她的脸毫无艺术气息——就像一个暴躁的处女座。

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， 是一个脾气暴躁的女人。

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的女人，但很多时候发现你有一种脾气暴躁的爱，不假思索地投入严肃的谈话中，就像一只狗投入九柱游戏中一样”。

He then says that poets should avoid the English found, quote, in universities where scholars use much peevish affection of words out of the primitive languages, end quote.

然后他说， 诗人应该避免在大学中发现的英语，引用一下， 学者们在那里使用大量从原始语言中借来的、令人厌烦的词汇，引用结束。

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.

他们不仅爱发表意见、爱生气、贪心、忧郁、自负、多话，而且无法建立友谊，对所有自然的情都漠不关心，甚至对他们自己的孙子孙女都没有情。

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。

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

明钦小姐依然刻薄无礼，艾米莉亚小姐依旧爱生气，仆人们一样粗鲁无礼。

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他的暴躁情绪。

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

如果他不那么暴躁和忧郁， 一切都起来的。

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

然而，在他完全沉下去之前， 商店铃声尖锐而恼人的叮当声响起。

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，她的这种爱劲头就退 了。当她变得乖戾的时候，辛德雷变得暴虐了。她只要吐出几个字，暗示不希刺克厉夫，这就足以把他对这孩子的旧恨全都勾起来。

The discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother.

关于柯林斯先生的提议的讨论现在已经快要结束了，伊丽莎白只忍受着参加这个提议必然带来的不舒服的觉，偶尔还忍受她母亲的一些令人讨厌的暗示。

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？

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——一个少女为想象中的痛苦而流下的阳光般的眼泪——落在忧郁的书页上， 克利福德要么将其视为实际灾难的象征， 要么变得暴躁， 并愤怒地示意她合上这本书。