cantankerous
英 [k?n't??k(?)r?s]
美[k?n't??k?r?s]
- adj. 脾氣壞的；愛吵架的；難相處的
GRE
中文詞源
cantankerous 壞脾氣的
可能來自contentious和raucous的合成詞。或來自于cantan, 鴨叫聲，見canary, -ker, 狗叫聲，見cur, curmudgeon.
英文詞源
- cantankerous
- cantankerous: [18] Cantankerous is a rather mysterious word. It first appears in the 1770s, and the earliest known reference to it is in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer 1772: ‘There’s not a more bitter cantanckerous road in all christendom’. Its origin is disputed: perhaps the likeliest source is Middle English contekour ‘brawler’, from contek ‘strife’, a borrowing from an unrecorded Anglo-Norman *contek, but an Irish origin has also been suggested, perhaps from Irish cannrán ‘strife, grumbling’ (another early user of the word was the Irish playwright Thomas Sheridan).
- cantankerous (adj.)
- 1772, said to be "a Wiltshire word," probably from an alteration (influenced by raucous) of Middle English contakour "troublemaker" (c. 1300), from Anglo-French contec "discord, strife," from Old French contechier (Old North French contekier), from con- "with" + teche, related to atachier "hold fast" (see attach). With -ous. Related: Cantankerously; cantankerousness.
雙語例句
- 1. a cantankerous old man
- 愛抱怨的老頭
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. He met a crabbed, cantankerous director.
- 他碰上了一位壞脾氣、愛爭吵的主管。
來自辭典例句
- 3. He was nothing but a narrow, ignorant, and cantankerous sea -- faring man .
- 他只不過是個狹隘無知 、 脾氣 暴戾 的海員而已.
來自名作英譯部分
- 4. Sometimes they can be cantankerous, mean - spirited, unkind, and sometimes downright cruel.
- 有時候,他們可能脾氣古怪, 心胸狹窄, 不友善, 有時簡直是殘酷的.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. The cantankerous bus driver rouse on the children for singing.
- 那個壞脾氣的公共汽車司機因為孩子們唱歌而罵他們.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)