词为我用 - querulous

词汇释义

querulous UK  /ˈkwer.ə.ləs/ US  /ˈkwer.jə.ləs/TEM8  GRE

adj, Someone who is querulous often complains about things.牢骚满腹的，爱抱怨的

外刊例句

1. The later he leaves it, the more risk he takes that his backbenchers will have become querulous and his government will have descended into a midterm slump by the time the people are asked the question.(The Guardian - Opinion)

2. As the prime minister selects his ministers, the key appointments may be those of the chief whip and the leader of the House of Lords, for I can see this becoming the most querulous and difficult parliament to manage since Jim Callaghan was brought down in 1979.(The Guardian - Opinion)

3. In fact, as Mr Ban has found, managing relations with the UN Security Council and the General Assembly is like trying to run a company with a divided 15-member board, while keeping 192 querulous shareholders from each others' throats and his own.(The Economist)

4. "That's what it is," he told a querulous Likud faction meeting in the Knesset next day.(The Economist)

5. Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.(The Economist)

6. But on August 10th the lines became serpentine and the people in them more anxious than querulous as news spread that the police and security services had been working overnight to interrupt a plot to blow up a dozen planes bound for America.(The Economist)

7. Arguably, the problem is Europe itself: its querulous voters and its cowardly political leaders.(The Economist)

8. Helpfully, the party's backbenchers are not proving particularly querulous.(The Economist)

9. If there is one thing that stops its otherwise querulous leaders from bringing down the government, it is the horror of being seen to usher Mr Berlusconi back into power.One of Mr Berlusconi's own allies is helping to avoid that.(The Economist)

10. Imperfect and ordinary, the siblings are overseen by their querulous mother, who feels that "every child she reared was ready with one grievance or another".(The Economist)

11. If and when the tribunal anoints him, Mr Calderón will have to strike a difficult balance between asserting democratic authority and reaching out to the alienated constituencies loyal to his querulous rival.(The Economist)

12. It has revealed a querulous country, low on confidence, whose politicians seem largely in denial about the big socio-political disruptions afoot in British democracy.(The Economist)

13. Michael Portillo, though potentially formidable, returned to active politics after losing his seat in 1997 with the fire in his belly evidently extinguished, a fact confirmed by his strangely querulous bid for the leadership.(The Economist)

14. The economic backdrop was less bright: queasy emerging markets, querulous complaints about the Fed, and (somewhat) quixotic calls for more co-ordinated macroeconomic policies. If such co-operation is ever to materialise, it will be people like Mr Osborne who will have to do the co-operating.(The Economist)

15. They did this despite lavishing large dollops of extra money on the health service, which has kept normally querulous provincial premiers happy.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

querulous people, country

词汇来源

c. 1400, from Old French querelos "quarrelsome, argumentative" and directly from Late Latin querulosus, from Latin querulus "full of complaints, complaining," from queri "to complain." Retains the original vowel of quarrel (n.1). Related: Querulously; querulousness.

近义词

crabby, cranky, fussy, grouchy, grumpy

反义词

forbearing, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining

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