cranky
cranky 英 [ˈkræŋki] 美 [ˈkræŋki]
adj. 暴躁的；古怪的；动摇的
比较级:crankier 最高级:crankiest
- Cranky is one of those words that sounds a little bit like what it means: one who is cranky is easily annoyed, irritable, or testy. My sister gets cranky when she doesn't eat. If you want to have a good day, keep her well fed.
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- adj. 暴躁的；古怪的；动摇的
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1. Who can blame them for being cranky?
谁能责怪他们的不暴躁？
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2. Whatever the reasons, feeling on edge makes us cranky, uncommunicative and stubborn.
无论是什么原因，这种处在边缘的感觉使我们暴躁，沉默和顽固。
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3. In work that gives cranky teenagers another reason to blame their parents for all life's woes, researchers have uncovered a genetic link to happiness.
研究人员发现遗传与幸福感相关，这给了暴躁的青少年一个将生命的灾难都怪罪于父母的理由。
- cranky (adj.) "cross-tempered, irritable," 1807, from crank (n.) + -y (2). The evolution would be from earlier senses of crank, such as "a twist or fanciful turn of speech" (1590s); "inaccessible hole or crevice" (1560s). Grose's 1787 "Provincial Glossary" has "Cranky. Ailing sickly from the dutch crank, sick," and identifies it as a Northern word (this is probably from the vagabond slang sense, which ultimately is from German krank "sick"). Jamieson's Scottish dictionary (1825) has crank in a secondary sense of "hard, difficult," as in crank word, "a word hard to be understood;" crank job, "a work attended with difficulty, or requiring ingenuity in the execution." Related: Crankily; crankiness.
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