Joseph was a very old servant, with a sour expression on his face.

约瑟夫是个很老的仆人，脸上表情乖戾。

As a result those lacking in sleep are forgetful, tired, less productive and grumpy.

结果是，睡眠不足的这些人健忘、疲惫、工作效率低下、情乖戾。

He had almost seemed like a human being and not the perverse wretch she knew so well.

他几乎真像个有良心的好人，而不是她所熟悉的乖戾的坏蛋。

No matter how surly, unpredictable or ungrateful Vincent was, every month, regular as clockwork, the brotherly subsidy rolled in.

不管梵高有多么乖戾、难以捉摸和毫不领情，每个月他的弟弟会准时寄来补助金。

Exasperated parents and opportunistic politicians have long fretted that they make players lazy and listless, or else unpredictable and violent.

一直以来，恼怒的家长和投机的政客担心电子游戏玩家会变得懒惰倦，情多变、暴躁乖戾。

Mark Twain has a similar effect, and we connect him with a smarmy, witty, affectionately curmudgeonly type of writing.

马克·吐温(Mark Twain)的名声也不例外，我们常把这位作家与谄媚、诙谐、亲、乖戾的写作风格联系在一起。

Snooker, Pete Tong and perverse ferret — folks, you heard it here first.

斯诺克、Pete Tong 和乖戾的雪貂——各位，你们是在这里第一次听到的。

He had no other opportunity: for the Jew remained very surly and silent till night: when he prepared to go abroad.

他没有其他机会：因为犹太人一直到晚上非常乖戾和沉默：当他准备出国时。

Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

即使是那些令人悲哀的、乖戾的大姐姐们。也请你们善待她们，如果不是为了别的原因，至少也为了她们错过了生命中最为甜蜜的阶段。

Billee's one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.

比利有一个毛病, 他的脾气好过头了, 而乔却恰恰相反, 乖戾而内向, 没完没了地吠叫, 还有一副恶狠狠的眼神。

Lydgate said, " Very well, " with a surly obedience, and thus the discussion ended with his promising Rosamond, and not with her promising him.

利德盖特说：“很好， ” 带着乖戾的顺从， 因此讨论以他对罗莎蒙德的承诺结束， 而不是她对他的承诺。

But it had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse.

但是在长期的放逐中，在被囚禁的黑暗中，这颗心脏已经变得异样，它的欲望变得凶猛而乖戾。

But if anyone cross and disagreeable happened to sip, he was pretty certain to twist his face into a hard knot and call it a pitcher of sour milk!

但是任何一个情乖戾的不友好的人碰巧来喝一口，他肯定会一脸难受的表情，并且会说那罐牛奶馊了！

Given that there are at least 43,678 species of the critters, though, it is not too surprising that a few have overcome their natural grumpiness and teamed up to form societies.

不过考虑到这种生物至少有43678种，有那么几种能克服天生乖戾的情结群而居也就不足为奇了。

I mean what you want a father to be is someone to be a taskmaster, in a way, but to teach you in the most loving—but he was a terrible curmudgeon.

我的意思是在某种程度上，你想要的父亲是一个监督者的形象，但是以最慈爱的方式教导你——但他是一个可怕的、乖戾的人。

Baudu, who had so far appeared not to notice Denise, now raised his head, with the surly movement that he affected when standing at his shop door, every time she passed.

Baudu 到目前为止似乎没有注意到 Denise， 现在他抬起头， 每次她经过时他站在他的店门口时表现出乖戾的动作。

Its instantaneous comic book associations give it a zippy, ebullient, jaunty-little-boy flare. Unless you're the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker, of course, but even he has his place in the pop culture hall of fame.

它与漫画书的即时联系赋予其一种活泼、热情、洋洋得意的小男孩形象。当然，除非你是脾气乖戾的阿奇·邦克，但即使是他也在流行文化的名人堂中占有一席之地。

Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical. A few words from her, evincing a dislike to Heathcliff, were enough to rouse in him all his old hatred of the boy.

但是不多久，她的这种喜爱劲头就退 了。当她变得乖戾的时候，辛德雷也变得暴虐了。她只要吐出几个字，暗示不喜欢希刺克厉夫，这就足以把他对这孩子的旧恨全勾起来。

" I have really sometimes been a perverse fellow, " he went on, " but I will never again, if I can help it, do or say what you would disapprove." " That is very good of you, " said Dorothea, with another open smile.

“我有时真是个乖戾的家伙，”他接着说，“但是，如果我能帮得上忙的话，我再也不会做说你不赞成的事了。“你真是太好了，”多萝西娅说，又露出了灿烂的笑容。