| 单词 | unruly |
| 释义 | un·ruly 1. < began his greatest editorial effort, his battle royal with that stubborn and unruly writer — Harrison Smith > < could imagine no such unruly urgence in man's perfect estate — J.H.Robinson †1936 > 2. < cleared the land, dug ditches and dammed unruly streams — American Guide Series: Arizona > Synonyms: < unruly children > < a wrought-iron collar with three bells attached, used to subdue an unruly or runaway slave — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < with judicious officers the most unruly seamen can at sea be kept in some sort of subjection — Herman Melville > ungovernable centers attention on the fact of not being governed, subdued, restrained, or checked; it may apply to whatever has never been subdued or to whatever has thrown off control < in the case of a consistently obstreperous and ungovernable slave, he should be sold rather than lashed — C.G.Bowers > intractable may suggest a stubborn disposition to resist guidance or restraint < inclined to display a savage, domineering and intractable temper — Robert Graves > < to submit to authority — human nature even then remaining so intractable that the only assurance of safety against its marauding instincts is subjection to sovereignty — John Dewey > refractory may connote manifest resistance and rebelliousness, disobedience, and protest < lawlessness is a term applied to the behavior of a social group which is considered to be consistently refractory and to be habitually breaking important legal rules — Jerome Frank > < some of them again became most refractory, breathing nothing but downright mutiny — Herman Melville > recalcitrant may suggest determined resistance, temperamental defiance to authority, or obstinate rebellion < some trouble about a recalcitrant miner who wanted to quit work. He shouted something about being a free man. When I ordered him to work, he rushed at me with his pick — John Steinbeck > < the establishment and maintenance of any orderly state generally involves the extermination of some of the recalcitrant opposition — M.R.Cohen > willful implies determination to have one's own will, sometimes capricious, and to flout authority or wise guidance in achieving it < willful men whom even the common frontier perils cannot reconcile or make tolerant — V.L.Parrington > < peevish because he called her and she did not come, and he threw his bowl of tea on the ground like a willful child — Pearl Buck > headstrong may suggest obdurate and mulish self-will impatient of restraint, advice, or suggestion < testy and headstrong through an excess of will and bias — R.W.Emerson > < headstrong enough to make it a very difficult task for him to manage her — Anthony Trollope > |
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