surly
surly 英 [ˈsɜ:li] 美 [ˈsɜrli]
adj. 乖戾的；板面孔的，无礼的；阴沉的
比较级:surlier 最高级:surliest
- Surly describes behavior nobody wants to be around. Think of the irritable old guy who lives on your street and always seems to be simmering with some sullen nasty anger, whose every utterance he spits out with a rude snarl. He's the poster boy for surly.
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- adj. 乖戾的；板面孔的，无礼的；阴沉的
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1. surly is my hero. Had he waited just five minutes to call for me, it would have been too late, game over.
脸色阴沉的男人是我的英雄，他如果只等我五分钟就来不及了，游戏就结束了。
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2. In most of the first movie, to show us how surly and unapproachable Lisbeth is, Rapace wears her punk hairdo so that it covers her left eye.
在《龙纹身的女孩》中，拉佩斯将一个乖戾难以亲近的莉丝贝形象展现在我们面前，她留着朋克的发型，刘海还遮住了左眼；
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3. We ducked into the St. Mark's branch of Grand Sichuan and sure enough, there was a generous amount of AC, along with a particularly surly waitress.
于是我们迅速的拐进了圣马克大街的大四川饭店，这里果真有好多的美式中餐，还有特别无礼的女服务员。
- surly (adj.) 1570s, "haughty, imperious," alteration of Middle English sirly "lordly, imperious" (14c.), literally "like a sir," from sir + -ly (1). The meaning "rude, gruff" is first attested 1660s. For sense development, compare lordly, and German herrisch "domineering, imperious," from Herr "master, lord." Related: Surliness.
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