feisty
feisty 英 [ˈfaɪsti] 美 [ˈfaɪsti]
adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的
名词复数:feisties 比较级:feistier 最高级:feistiest
- Feisty is a word for someone who is touchy or quarrelsome. It can also mean to show and have courage.
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- adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的
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1. He's a feisty ultraconservative who has managed, seemingly on purpose, to make enemies of all the other casino owners, a pretty friendly group.
他是一个活跃而又超级保守的人，他成功地，也似乎是故意地把其他赌场大亨的敌人们变成了一个友好的小团体。
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2. On the whole, it was more structured and less feisty, a bit like the first debate.
总体来说，这个环节更有条理，大家更冷静一些，与第一场辩论有点相似。
- feisty (adj.) 1896, "aggressive, exuberant, touchy," American English, with -y (2) + feist "small dog," earlier fice, fist (American English, 1805); short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, with present participle of now-obsolete Middle English fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.), from Proto-Germanic *fistiz "a fart," said to be from PIE *pezd- (see fart), but there are difficulties.
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