truculent
truculent 英 [ˈtrʌkjələnt] 美 [ˈtrʌkjələnt]
adj. 好斗的；野蛮的；言词刻毒的
- If you are quick to argue, always looking for a fight, and hard to please, you are truculent. You can also write a truculent essay, and fans upset by a loss can become truculent.
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- adj. 好斗的；野蛮的；言词刻毒的
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1. "You commie homo-loving sons of guns," the sometimes truculent actor began, to laughter. "I did not expect this, and I wanted to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often.
“你们这些喜欢搞同性恋的乌龟王八蛋”这位有时喜欢脏口的演员一开口，人们就笑起来，“我没有预料到是这样，有一点我很清楚，为了得到大家的认可我做出了何种努力 。
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2. The United States and its European allies will clearly find it trickier to forge a consensus with a truculent Russia and a wary China on harsher sanctions to curb Iran's nuclear drive.
美国和欧洲盟国清楚地看到，要想就加大制裁伊朗力度一事和好战的俄罗斯与机警的中国达成共识，现在的难度更让人破费脑筋。
- truculent (adj.) 1530s, from Latin truculentus "fierce, savage, stern, harsh, cruel," from trux (genitive trucis) "fierce, rough, savage, wild," perhaps from a suffixed form of PIE root *tere- (2) "cross over, pass through, overcome." Related: Truculently.
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