testy

英 [ˈtesti]

美 [ˈtesti]

adj.  易怒的; 暴躁的

GRE

BNC.35482

牛津词典

adj.

• 易怒的；暴躁的
  easily annoyed or irritated

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 急躁的;没耐心的;易怒的
  If you describe someone astesty, you mean that they easily become impatient or angry.
  1. Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
     上了年纪后本变得有点性急了。

英英释义

adj

• easily irritated or annoyed
  1. an incorrigibly fractious young man
  2. not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
  Synonym:crankyfractiousirritablenettlesomepeevishpeckishpettishpetulantscratchytetchytechy

双语例句

• As the Economist went to press, a testy court battle in America between the firm and Samsung over various patents connected with smartphones and tablet computers was drawing to a close.
  随着本期《经济学人》的发行，苹果和三星关于智能手机和平板电脑的多种专利之争也接近尾声。
• A friendly warning: If I find sales are lagging, I get testy and lock the exits.
  友情提示，如果我发现销量上不去将会很生气，并把出口锁上。
• Jack Pan: Who influenced you in your art testy?
  潘杰客：你的艺术品味受到谁的影响？
• Relationships can be very testy if there are problems that have been avoided in the past.
  如果在过去有被回避的问题，这些问题将会再次出现，而你的关系将会面临考验。
• Her reply was rather testy.
  她的答复相当不耐烦。
• Today I lose my temper to somebody because of the study discussion, at last let him become very unhappy, and say I am too testy.
  今天因为学习小组讨论的事情冲某人发了一通脾气，结果把别人也搞得很郁闷，说我火气太大。
• Testy comments about their leader.
  关于他们领袖的不耐烦的评论。
• Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
  上了年纪后本变得有点性急了。
• You can see he got a little testy there about the skin issue.
  你可以看得出他在皮肤的问题上有点易怒。
• I can't see that the remark as reported here is actually all that extreme, but apparently it does come across as quite blunt and even a little testy in Chinese.
  我看不出来这里提到的言辞真的有多么极端，但是很明显，给中国人的印象的确是没有转弯抹角甚至是不耐烦的。