truculent

英 [ˈtrʌkjələnt]

美 [ˈtrʌkjələnt]

adj.  爱争吵的; 粗暴的; 好斗的; 寻衅的

GRE

BNC.25249 / COCA.34256

牛津词典

adj.

• 爱争吵的；粗暴的；好斗的；寻衅的
  tending to argue or be bad-tempered; slightly aggressive

柯林斯词典

• 暴躁的;易怒的;好斗的;尖刻的
  If you say that someone istruculent, you mean that they are bad-tempered and aggressive.

英英释义

adj

• defiantly aggressive
  1. a truculent speech against the new government

双语例句

• He was in no truculent state of mind now. His viciousness is beyond our conception.
  这会儿他心肠一点也不狠毒了。他的狠毒非我们所能想像。
• Among the poets of the new poetic school, MU Dan was a poet who held the most truculent style and the highest accomplishment.
  穆旦是中国新诗派诗人中风格最浓烈且最有成就的诗人。
• His demagogues, who bear names like Aaron Blue-Skin, are as meanly truculent as cooper's Anti-Renters.
  他笔下那些煽风点火的政客，诸如蓝皮艾伦之流，卑鄙残忍不下于库珀的抗租者。
• A truculent speech against the new government.
  反对新政府的挑衅之言。
• The real question, then, is what the truculent teen can hope to extract from the US in return assuming the subsequent exchange rate movements are deemed to be sufficiently deserving.
  那么，真正的问题是，好斗的青少年希望从美国那里榨取什么样的回报假定随后的汇率变动被视为值得给予回报。
• In sum, it seems that the solar ponds effect is an important reason for the truculent death of prawn in the seawater ponds after the rain.
  实验结果与海水对虾池实际情况相符，认为太阳池效应是雨后虾池对虾毁灭性死亡的一个重要原因。
• He became very truculent and started arguing with me angrily.
  他当时盛气凌人，气冲冲地同我吵了起来。
• She also sweeps through his early education as a peewee gangster, truculent son of Italian immigrants and accidental athlete who discovers he can run like the wind, but she gets to the war sooner.
  她还简单介绍了他早期做小流氓时的经历，他是意大利移民的儿子，凶猛好斗，意外成为运动员，发现自己可以跑得像风一样飞快。
• I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons.
  我记得她曾带我去见一个面目狰狞的红脸膛老绅士，身上挂满了勋章和绶带。
• China is a rising power, but also an increasingly truculent state on territorial or maritime disputes with its neighbours, unable to rise above narrow considerations.
  中国是一个崛起中的大国，但在与周边国家的领土或海上纠纷上，它也是一个越来越凶猛好战的国家，无法超越狭隘的考虑。