| 词汇 | truculent |
| 释义 | truculent adjective uk /ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/ us /ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/ unpleasant and likely to argue a lot: 易怒的;好斗的;寻衅的 a truculent teenager好斗的少年 He was truculent and difficult to deal with.他十分好斗，很难对付。 Bad-tempered argumentative bad-tempered be hell on wheelsidiom be like a bear with a sore headidiom be spoiling for a fightidiom grouchiness grouchy grumpily grumpiness grumpy pettish pettishly petulance petulancy petulant stroppy surlily surliness testily testiness Related wordstruculence truculently truculent | American Dictionarytruculent adjective us/ˈtrʌk·jə·lənt/ having a bad state of mind, or behaving in a threatening manner: He was a truculent bully. Examples of truculenttruculent On occasion, this parochialism hardens into a truculent xenophobia. We are told that it was not the facts themselves, it was the tone—so truculent, so swashbuckling, so provocative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not because he has been truculent or provocative or jingo, but because he has pushed the virtue of patience almost to a fault. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true to say that we may be prickly, difficult and truculent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it has been suggested that if trade unions are too troublesome, truculent and disruptive members may be sent to prison. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She struggled through a cross-examination conducted by a truculent defence barrister. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They began by being truculent and difficult, understandably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the truculent person is the last person out, there will still be staff there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most truculent were always those who could not be identified with any particular principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They suffer from a kind of nostalgia; indeed, it has become—if one can associate two such dissimilar words—a sort of truculent nostalgia. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will try to be brief, informative and not at all truculent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate that many of these students may be truculent and difficult, and disturb the other students. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or does it mean that we are really going to initiate negotiations under the shield of this rather truculent attitude? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This has been a wide-ranging, well-informed debate, sometimes passionate, only occasionally truculent and always interesting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Possibly they are over-awed; possibly truculent; certainly in nine cases out of ten they are not very good at expressing themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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