| 释义 |
short-temperedˌshort-ˈtempered adjective   - He tends to be very short-tempered when he's hungry.
- Did they guess why she was so short-tempered of late?
- During those months I became anxious, short-tempered and critical.
- He is too short-tempered, for one thing, and also capable of doubt, anxiety, weariness, fear.
- His father was growing short-tempered as one interview after another proved to be fixed in some one else's favour.
- She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
- When John was so short-tempered, it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation.
- You become tense, short-tempered and irritable with other people.
easily annoyed► irritable easily annoyed by unimportant things, especially because you already feel bad-tempered about something: · Since Steve quit smoking, he's been really irritable.· Zoe hadn't had much sleep and was feeling tired and irritable.· You're turning into an irritable old man. ► touchy someone who is touchy is easily offended and made angry by things, so you have to be careful what you say to them: · Saiid's a little touchy about how you pronounce her name.touchy about: · Try not to look at his scars - he can be really touchy about it. ► crotchety an old person who is crotchety becomes angry about unimportant things and complains a lot: · a crotchety old man· When we were in Germany, we rented a room from a crotchety old woman named Brunhilde. ► short-tempered/quick-tempered someone who is short-tempered gets angry quickly and easily: · Jackie can be very short-tempered when she's hungry.· Her father is a quick-tempered man. ► have a short fuse informal to often get angry quickly and easily: · They say the judge has a very short fuse. tending to become angry very quickly → bad-tempered:  She gets short-tempered when she’s tired.—short temper noun [countable] |