choleric
choleric 英 [ˈkɒlərɪk] 美 [ˈkɑlərɪk]
adj. 易怒的；暴躁的；胆汁质的
名词复数:cholerics
- Are you easy to tick off? Known to have a short fuse? Then, you could be described as choleric. Don't worry; it's not a disease related to cholera. Choleric just means you're testy and irritable.
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- adj. 易怒的；暴躁的；胆汁质的
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1. In style, Mr McCain's reaction was slow and choleric, while Mr Obama's was steely and swift.
在风度上，麦凯恩先生的反应迟缓、暴躁，而奥巴马先生的反应则坚定、迅速。
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2. Then the muscles of his heart, exhausted after three billion beats and weakened by pneumonia, diabetes, and the stress of a choleric temperament, paused just for a moment, and could not resume.
后来他的心脏在跳了三十亿下后，又因肺炎、糖尿病、暴躁的脾气而心肌衰竭，停了一会儿，无法恢复正常。
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3. Paul was a choleric. Jeremiah was a melancholy.
彼得热情乐观，保罗暴躁易怒，耶利米多愁善感。
- choleric (adj.) mid-14c., colrik, "bilious of temperament or complexion," from Old French colerique, from Late Latin cholericus, from Greek kholerikos, from Greek kholera "a type of disease characterized by diarrhea, supposedly caused by bile," from khole "gall, bile," so called for its color, related to khloazein "to be green," khloros "pale green, greenish-yellow," from PIE root *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives denoting "green, yellow," and thus "bile, gall." Meaning "easily angered, hot-tempered" is from 1580s (from the supposed effect of excess choler); that of "pertaining to cholera" is from 1834.
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