cranky
英语
[编辑]词源
[编辑]源自crank + -y。对比中古低地德語 krankich (“不太舒服的”)。
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[编辑]形容词
[编辑]cranky (比較級 crankier,最高級 crankiest)
- (指机器等) 有问题的,工作不正常的
- 近義詞: shaky
- 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness: The River of Doubt:
- We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 脾气不好的,易怒的,暴躁的
- He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
- 他忙了一天工作回到家,又累心情又差。
- 性情乖僻的,心理有问题的
- 1934 December, Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories,
- Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
- 1934 December, Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories,
- crank (“(指船因货物堆放不恰当或压舱物不足而容易)倾覆的”)之同義詞
- a cranky vessel
- 好像要翻了的轮船
- (古舊) 精力充沛的
- (棄用) 身体羸弱的