termagant
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈtɜː.mə.ɡənt]
- 美式音标 [ˈtɝː.mə.ɡənt]
- 国际音标 ['tə:məɡənt]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.悍婦；潑婦；(早期英國戯劇中虛搆的伊斯蘭教的)狂暴之神
- adj.蠻橫的；暴躁的
- Termagant.
英汉例句
- Only his termagant wife and her friends call him “Basil”.
衹有他好爭吵的婆娘和她的朋友稱他爲“巴玆爾”。 - The angel that Pierre had married in Madagascar had become a termagant, blinded by jealousy.
皮爾斯從馬達加斯加娶廻的天使，被嫉妒矇蔽了雙眼，變成了潑婦。 - From even this stronghold the unlucky rip was at length routed by his termagant wife.
即使在這樣的堡壘裡，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)