She glared down at me with a peevish expression on her face.(她低头瞪着我,一脸怒气。)
Do say you will. I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?'(我想我一定不会跟你发脾气,你是不会惹我生气的,而且你总是想帮助我的,不是吗?)
A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.(一个脾气暴躁的孩子自己不高兴也使别人不高兴。)
I do not say that the pain of death is nothing compared to the pain of sharing a coffeepot with a peevish woman.(我不是说,死亡的痛苦与跟一个脾气暴躁的女人分享咖啡壶里的咖啡相比较有什么关系的。)
I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.(然后我又离开了她,她在一种最坏的、最乖张的心情中上了门闩。)
I have a peevish brother.(我有一个脾气暴躁的弟弟。)
Come over, you peevish girl! "said my husband walking out into the yard with a blow dryer."(“过来!坏脾气妞!”说话的当儿,丈夫已拿着电吹风从房里走出来。)
He was assailed by a fancy FOR peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.(他在反感中突然起了一种想对人亲切的心情,那种心情在医生和神甫中是常见的,在他说来却是绝无仅有的。)
He soliloquized in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse.(他接过我的马时,别别扭扭地不高兴地低声自言自语着。)
The night-hawk, wheeling about in the highest regions of the air, emitted his peevish, boding cry.(夜鹰一边在空中最高处盘旋,一边发出带着怒气的不祥叫声。)