petulance
petulance 英 ['petjʊləns] 美 ['petjʊləns]
n. 易怒；生气；性急；暴躁
名词复数:petulances
- Petulance is whininess and irritability. Your least favorite thing about the kids you babysit might be their petulance.
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- n. 易怒；生气；性急；暴躁
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1. The great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies—his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness—in the service of perfection.
乔布斯一生最大的成就是他追求完美时，如何高效地灌注他的本质——他的暴躁，自恋，无礼。
- petulance (n.) c. 1600, "insolence, immodesty," from French pétulance (early 16c.), from Latin petulantia "sauciness, impudence," abstract noun from petulantem (see petulant). Meaning "peevishness" is recorded from 1784, from influence of pettish, etc. It displaced earlier petulancy (1550s).
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