Crabbed

(adj.) annoyed and irritable .

艾达整理

• Everybody thinks me crabbed and odd (with perfect justice); and everybody thinks her sweet-tempered and charming (with more justice still). 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Speak up, you crabbed image for the sign of a walking-stick shop, and say you saw him put it there! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Crabbed and crusty as ever! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A crabbed dialogue terminated in my being called une petite moqueuse et sans-coeur, and in Monsieur's temporary departure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She had sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

埃斯蒂斯整理