So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library.

所以没过多久，在去底特律公共图书馆的路上，就有两个脾气暴躁的男孩坐在她那辆1959年产的白色奥兹莫比尔汽车上。

Aubrey had slept little and that always made him peevish.

奥布里睡眠不足，这让他总是易怒。

She glared down at me with a peevish expression on her face.

她低头瞪着我，一脸怒气。

I have a peevish brother.

我有一个脾气暴躁的弟弟。

She was peevish when she said that.

她说那个的时候是在撒娇。

He becomes peevish and refuses to eat.

他变得易怒了，而且还不吃东西。

She reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.

她报告说他是一个多病的任性的东西。

A peevish child is unhappy and makes others unhappy.

一个脾气暴躁的孩子自己不高兴也使别人不高兴。

He gave them far more reason to be peevish, after all.

毕竟，他给了他们太多可以发怒的理由了。

This was a whole different emotional tone , more peevish but less selfish.

这种心境与以前完全不同，更加的倔强，却少了自私。

He soliloquized in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse.

他接过我的马时，别别扭扭地不高兴地低声自言自语着。

I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.

然后我又离开了她，她在一种最坏的、最乖张的心情中上了门闩。

Come over, you peevish girl! "said my husband walking out into the yard with a blow dryer."

“过来！坏脾气妞！”说话的当儿，丈夫已拿着电吹风从房里走出来。

The night-hawk, wheeling about in the highest regions of the air, emitted his peevish, boding cry.

夜鹰一边在空中最高处盘旋，一边发出带着怒气的不祥叫声。

I do not say that the pain of death is nothing compared to the pain of sharing a coffeepot with a peevish woman.

我不是说，死亡的痛苦与跟一个脾气暴躁的女人分享咖啡壶里的咖啡相比较有什么关系的。

Yes--very foolish: as if I took notice! ' replied Catherine in a peevish tone. 'And where is the sense of that?'

“是的，很傻气，好像我会注意似的！”凯瑟琳回答，怨声怨气的。“那又有什么意思呢？”

He was assailed by a fancy FOR peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.

他在反感中突然起了一种想对人亲切的心情，那种心情在医生和神甫中是常见的，在他说来却是绝无仅有的。

Do say you will. I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?'

我想我一定不会跟你发脾气，你是不会惹我生气的，而且你总是想帮助我的，不是吗？