| 单词 | truculent |
| 释义 | truculent adjective uk/ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/us/ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/unpleasantandlikelytoarguea lot: 易怒的；好斗的；寻衅的a truculentteenager好斗的少年 He was truculent anddifficulttodealwith.他十分好斗，很难对付。 Bad-tempered
truculent| American Dictionarytruculent adjective us/ˈtrʌk·jə·lənt/having abadstateofmind, orbehavingin athreateningmanner: He was a truculentbully. Examplesoftruculenttruculent On occasion, this parochialism hardens into atruculentxenophobia. From theCambridge English Corpus We are told that it was not the facts themselves, it was the tone—sotruculent, so swashbuckling, so provocative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not because he has beentruculentor 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true to say that we may be prickly, difficult andtruculent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it has been suggested that if trade unions are too troublesome,truculentand disruptive members may be sent to prison. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 She struggled through a cross-examination conducted by atruculentdefence barrister. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They began by beingtruculentand difficult, understandably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 If thetruculentperson 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The mosttruculentwere 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 theOpen 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 oftruculentnostalgia. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I will try to be brief, informative and not at alltruculent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate that many of these students may betruculentand difficult, and disturb the other students. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Or does it mean that we are really going to initiate negotiations under the shield of this rathertruculentattitude? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This has been a wide-ranging, well-informed debate, sometimes passionate, only occasionallytruculentand always interesting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Possibly they are over-awed; possiblytruculent; 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 theOpen 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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