• 发音:[ˈpetʃələnt]

  • 例句

  1. 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.
  2. We see Emma change during her crisis from an angry, petulant and irresponsible young girl into a mature, forceful, and responsible woman.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. 

  • 解释

  1. 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。

  2. 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 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

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