By the time the meal began , the youngest children were getting tired and crotchety .
等到开始用餐时,年纪最小的孩子们已经累坏、开始哭闹了。
It 's hardly surprising that this bold , or perhaps crotchety , proposal was instantly controversial .
不出所料,这个大胆,些许有些离奇的建议一经提出便立刻引起争议。
A lot of older people are crotchety because they 've been complaining all their lives .
很多老年人脾气暴躁,因为他们一辈子都在怨天尤人。
You grow old if you are irritable , crotchety , petulant , and cantankerous .
当你易怒、任性、想法怪异、刚愎自用时,你才会变老。
Despite my return from cornell , despite my crotchety temper duringthese days , despitemy seclution , I find that I can 't stop .
尽管我已经从康奈尔回来了,尽管我最近心情很变态,尽管我有点自闭,我却发现我不能停止更新。
He had to give the crotchety old miser his last money for a map of the area , but he wasn 't complaining - otherwise he 'd still be trying to find his way home .
At his first face-to-face debate with mr obama on september 26th , he refused to look his opponent in the face , which made him seem crotchety and disrespectful .
在9月26号与奥巴马的第一场面对面的辩论中,他拒绝正面看他的对手,从而让人们觉得他很固执和失礼。
Eagle was alsoa crotchety bird.it overshot the planned landing site , sounded several worrying alarms on its flight , and eventually touched down under manual control with a mere 25 seconds of fuel remaining .
For a long time to come , european bankers will abide by the dictum of the elder mr dawes , the crotchety banker in " mary poppins " : " when fall the banks of england , england falls ! "