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发音：[ˈpetʃələnt]
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例句：
- When using the word petulant to describe a person, we want to indicate that person is easily irritated or annoyed in an unreasonable or unjustified way.
- We see Emma change during her crisis from an angry, petulant and irresponsible young girl into a mature, forceful, and responsible woman.
- Three former British ambassadors to the EU have impugned the government’s decision to withdraw from most Brussels meetings as a “petulant and futile gesture” that will harm the national interest.
- Every day he’s looking more and more like a petulant child playing media games and less and less like a principled statesman working in the best interests of the country.
- The U.S.’s “our way or the highway” attitude in the important area of cybersecurity appears petulant instead of accepting of the fact that its viewpoint did not prevail in a multilateral vote.
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解释：
- Petulant这个单词用作形容词，其表示“easily irritated or annoyed in an unreasonable or unjustified way”这一含义，即“闹脾气的/任性的/爱耍性子的“，与irritable/fiery/irascible这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- In the Pixar film Inside Out, the emotions of an 11-year-old girl are personified as perky Joy, petulant Disgust and hulking Anger.（在皮克斯电影《头脑特工队》中，一个11岁女孩的情感被拟人化为活泼的喜悦、任性的厌恶和笨重的愤怒。）
—Arts - Martin, the author of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” books that inspired HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones” compare his most reviled, petulant character, King Joffrey Baratheon, to?（马丁，启发了HBO热播剧集《权力的游戏》的《冰与火之歌》书籍的作者，将他最受辱骂、任性的角色乔佛里·拜拉席恩国王比作谁？）
—Arts - The chancellor laid his hand on the young man’s shoulder as if to soothe a petulant child; while Curran sat on a table with arms crossed and a sour smile flitting about his lips.（财政大臣把手放在年轻人的肩膀上，仿佛在安抚一个任性的孩子。而柯伦则坐在桌子上，双臂交叉，嘴角浮现出一丝酸涩的笑容。）
—Arts - Ms. Nessel called Mr. Trump “a petulant child” after he traveled to Ypsilanti in May and declined to wear a mask while touring a Ford Motor Company plant.（内塞尔在特朗普5月前往伊普西兰蒂后称他为“一个任性的孩子”，并拒绝在参观福特汽车公司的一家工厂时戴口罩。）
—Poitics
