killjoy

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Under the casual exterior is a calculating killjoy with mom issues.
在他漫不經心的外表之下，是一個絮絮叨叨喜歡算計的人。
The king’s defiance of this view seemed to augur a break from decades of deference by the ruling Al Saud dynasty to killjoy puritans.
國王對這種看法的藐眡似乎預示著：他要打破幾十年來，Al Saud王室對煞風景的清教徒的尊重。
You say your boyfriend ‘presses’ drinks on you, and clearly you’ve been allowing your fear of looking like a killjoy to over-ride your worries about his drinking.
你可以說你的男朋友把喝酒的習慣強加於你，但是很顯然你也是因爲害怕自己對他喝酒的擔心會讓他很掃興。

Sure, no one wants to be the killjoy who brings bad news, but you know what?
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If you call someone a killjoy, you are critical of them because they stop other people from enjoying themselves, often by reminding them of something unpleasant.