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

作为管员，乔布斯有时候对待下属是脾气暴躁、严苛情。

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

真抱歉 我又闹了？

He also thinks you're a petulant, whiny, spoiled brat, just like I was, and that's gonna kill your career, just like it killed mine.

他也认为你爱使小性，脾气暴躁又自负，就像我当年一样，这会毁了你事业，就像当年它毁了我。

Not this pizza place. It's a rat hole. But once your dad comes to his senses and stops being petulant, he'll come home.

这个披萨店不好玩。是个老鼠洞。等你们老爸恢复清醒不再使性子，他就会回来。

But Helen was quick to realize that Miss Sullivan was not about to let the petulant child get away with her outrageous behaviour, as had been happening up until then.

但海伦很快就意识到，沙利文老师不会像之前发生那样，让这个任性孩子不受惩罚。

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

听着 波 别这么暴躁。

Riordan's series, although full of frothy action and sometimes sophomoric humor, also cleverly engages in a literary exercise as old as the Western canon: spinning new adventures for the petulant gods and compromised heroes of Greek mythology.

赖尔登系列虽然充满了浮华动作，有时还带有幼稚幽默，但也巧妙地运用了一种与西方经典一样古老文学手法：为希腊神话中任性神和妥协英雄们编造新冒险故事。

For a fleeting instant she saw Melanie's incredulous face, the look on the chaperons' faces, the petulant girls, the enthusiastic approval of the soldiers.

霎时间，她看见了媚兰那张惊疑孔，那陪护表情，那些焦急女孩子，以及士兵们热烈赞扬神色。

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

烦躁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，曾运用述技巧赢得了一位脾气古怪、总爱吹毛求疵买家好感。

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

他十足地表现了老易怒和顽固态度。他道：我只能告诉他本。

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，思嘉小姐，俺也渴着呢，" 这才提醒她想起别也要喝。

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

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

He was fed up with both of them: with Sculley for not having the guts to take command over the past year, and with Jobs for " acting like a petulant brat."

在过去一年里，斯卡利没胆量负责指挥管，而乔布斯则“像个任性小孩儿”。

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.

怒气冲冲小男孩大声回敬，扬言要报复。

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

他们是我见过最任性！

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。