fretful

英 [ˈfretfl]

美 [ˈfretfl]

adj.  烦躁的; 苦恼的; 不舒适的

TEM8

BNC.24953 / COCA.27793

牛津词典

adj.

• 烦躁的；苦恼的；不舒适的
  behaving in a way that shows you are unhappy or uncomfortable

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 苦恼的;烦躁的
  If someone isfretful, they behave in a way that shows that they worried or unhappy about something.
  1. Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
     不要想当然地认为你的宝宝一闹就是要吃奶。

英英释义

adj

• habitually complaining
  1. a whiny child
  Synonym:querulouswhineywhiny
• nervous and unable to relax
  1. a constant fretful stamping of hooves
  2. a restless child
  Synonym:antsyfidgetyitchy

双语例句

• My baby brother is fretful because he is cutting his teeth.
  我的小弟弟焦躁不安因为他正在长牙。
• She's always fretful and peevish like this, so just leave her alone.
  她动不动就闹小性儿，让她闹去，甭理她。
• She kept her vow for a week, during which she was unusually cross and fretful.
  她信守誓言有一星期之久，但在这一星期内，她显得五心烦躁，动不动就发脾气。
• Shallow breathing; a night of shallow fretful sleep; in a shallow trance.
  浅浅的呼吸；睡得不熟的、烦躁的夜晚；浅昏迷。
• Silence is golden if it keeps me from broadcasting that fretful self into my network of treasured relationships.
  如果安静能让我将那个烦躁的自我不波及到珍贵的关系中，那么它就是金。
• But for all their professed joy at the spectacle, China's own leaders are fretful.
  尽管中国领导在公众场合表现得轻松愉快，实际上却心急如焚。
• At he edge of a nearby canal, donkeys laden with freshly harvested alfalfa waited for their masters to lead them home, braying a fretful counterpoint to the steady thud of an irrigation pump.
  在附近一条水渠旁，驴子背上驮着刚割的苜蓿，等着主人牵它们回家去，一面发出一阵阵急促的叫声，和浇地的水泵不断发出的突突声交织在一起。
• China's banking regulator, however, is increasingly fretful, noting on Tuesday that rampant credit growth poses risks to the financial system.
  不过，中国银行业监管机构越来越感到担忧。该机构周二指出，迅猛的信贷增长对金融体系构成风险。
• Given what we had witnessed the day before, could I have destroyed our tenderness with fretful suspicions of being followed?
  想想我们昨天亲历的那一桩惨剧，我要不要说出自己感觉被人跟踪的烦躁疑心，来破坏我们之间的这份温存甜蜜？
• It was a busy, as it turned out, fretful journey.
  旅途公务繁忙，实际上也颇为焦急。