termagant
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?t??.m?.ɡ?nt]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?t??.m?.ɡ?nt]
- 國際音標(biāo) ['t?:m?ɡ?nt]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n.悍婦；潑婦；(早期英國戲劇中虛構(gòu)的伊斯蘭教的)狂暴之神
- adj.蠻橫的；暴躁的
- Termagant.
英漢例句
- Only his termagant wife and her friends call him “Basil”.
只有他好爭吵的婆娘和她的朋友稱他為“巴茲爾”。 - The angel that Pierre had married in Madagascar had become a termagant, blinded by jealousy.
皮爾斯從馬達(dá)加斯加娶回的天使，被嫉妒蒙蔽了雙眼，變成了潑婦。 - From even this stronghold the unlucky rip was at length routed by his termagant wife.
即使在這樣的堡壘里，不幸的瑞普到底還是被他那兇悍的老婆趕出來了。
雙語例句
英英字典
- a woman who argues noisily to get or achieve what she wants
- a shrewish woman scold
- (as modifier)