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单词 bad temper
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bad temper
b. In good-temper, ill-temper, bad temper (the latter leading to sense 11).
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1768 [implied in: L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 88 The French..are a..good temper'd people as is under heaven. (at tempered adj. 2b)].
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 23 Oct. in Trav. France (1792) i. 69 A feature of that good temper which appears to me so visible every where in France.
1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Wks. (1821) VII. 267 He would not be able to get the better of the ill temper, and the ill doctrines, he has been the means of exciting.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. This is applicable to beasts as well as to man.
a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) I. 26 (note) The tranquillity and good temper of a disputant.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 38 The old soldiers of James were generally in a very bad temper.
1884 J. Hall Christian Home 159 Servants..sometimes suffer from the ill-temper of their employers.
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