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

• The children were predictably fractious.
  孩子们肯定会耍脾气。
• There is continually someone brave to be primary to fractious a bridge!
  不断有勇敢的人将主要以任性的桥梁！
• The detentions have heightened tensions between Canberra and Beijing and come amid fractious talks between the Chinese Steel Association and Australian mining groups to set an annual benchmark price for iron ore.
  此次拘留事件已经加剧了堪培拉和北京之间的紧张关系，而且正值中国钢铁工业协会与澳洲矿商有关铁矿石年度基准价格的谈判陷入僵局。
• 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。
• 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。
• Importantly, their armies also learn to work together, even when relations between their governments occasionally turn fractious.
  重要的是，甚至是在与他们政府间关系偶尔紧张时，他们的军队也学会了如何协作。
• 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。
• After a fractious call with analysts, his irritated shareholders demonstrated their discontent.
  一场失控的分析师电话会议过后，被激怒的惠普股东展示了他们的不满。
• Yet simultaneously, members of Britain's third party usually a fractious bunch seemed in a splendid mood.
  然而同时，英国第三政党的成员（通常是难以对付的一群）似乎心情很好。
• A fractious group of left-wing parties is not always reliable and unlikely to back tough reforms.
  一群急躁的左翼党派往往不可信赖也不可能支撑起艰巨的改革事业。