fractious

英 [ˈfrækʃəs]

美 [ˈfrækʃəs]

adj.  暴躁的; 易怒的; 动辄烦躁的; 捣乱的; 表示不满的

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BNC.21157 / COCA.19745

牛津词典

adj.

• 暴躁的；易怒的；动辄烦躁的
  bad-tempered or easily upset, especially by small things
  1. Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.
     孩子们疲倦时易烦躁好哭。
• 捣乱的；表示不满的
  making trouble and complaining
  1. The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.
     这六个不安分的加盟共和国要求自治。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 易怒的;烦躁的;脾气不好的
  If you describe someone asfractious, you disapprove of them because they become upset or angry very quickly about small unimportant things.
  1. ...fractious national movements.
     难以控制的全国运动
  2. Nancy was in a fractious mood...
     南希情绪烦躁。
  3. The children were predictably fractious.
     孩子们肯定会耍脾气。

英英释义

adj

• unpredictably difficult in operation
  1. rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
  2. fractious components of a communication system
• easily irritated or annoyed
  1. an incorrigibly fractious young man
  2. not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
  Synonym:crankyirritablenettlesomepeevishpeckishpettishpetulantscratchytestytetchytechy
• stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  1. a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
  2. a refractory child
  Synonym:refractoryrecalcitrant

双语例句

• That may make the world a little less fractious.
  这或许会让世界更容易驾驭一点。
• If you ever wanted a sign of just how fractious and uncoordinated Kenya's coalition government was, this is it.
  如果你曾经希望寻找肯尼亚联合政府分裂和不协调的迹象，这里就是。
• But, though the Chinese onslaught looks fractious and pell-mell, conspiracy theorists smell a state-driven attack on the commanding heights of Australia's economy.
  虽然中国人的攻击看起来有些暴躁和忙乱，但在这波旨在控制澳大利亚经济高度的攻击中，阴谋论者似乎嗅到了一丝国家主使的气息。
• AIG is still looking for a chairman, whose primary job will be to manage the troubled company's fractious relationship with the Obama administration, lawmakers and regulators.
  AIG仍在寻找担任董事长的合适人选。该职位的主要职责将是改善这家陷入困境的公司与奥巴马（Obama）政府、议员和监管机构的不和睦的关系。
• Every time I got home, she always shaking her tail, I went to the fractious arms.
  每当我回到家的时候，她总是摇着她的尾巴跑到我的怀里撒娇。
• She was fractious with other children.
  她同其他孩子在一起时脾气很暴躁。
• Above all, he sees Europe as it is: a fractious collection of27 members.
  在他的眼中，欧盟是一个由27名成员组成的、轻率急躁的集体。
• He seems, within his discourse, distracted by hectoring students and fractious fellow-faculty.
  在他的论述里，他似乎受到了浮夸的学生和倔强的学院同仁的影响。
• He put his finger to his lips, as if hushing a fractious child.
  他把指头放在嘴唇上，好像在要个烦躁的孩子肃静。
• Since the second world war, the US has led the evolution of a system of multilateral export controls that has worked well to stem transfers of militarily useful commercial commodities and technology to fractious or unstable nations.
  自二战以来，美国领导了多边出口管制体系的发展，有效地阻止了具有军事用途的商业物资和技术转移到不友好或是不稳定的国家。