testy
英 ['test?]
美['t?sti]
- adj. 易怒的；暴躁的
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
副詞:?testily;
中文詞源
testy 易怒的
來自 test,陶罐，俚語義頭，頭顱，-y,形容詞后綴。即頭腦發(fā)熱的，莽撞的，易怒的，對應于 heady.
英文詞源
- testy
- testy: [14] Testy means etymologically ‘heady’. It was borrowed from Anglo-Norman testif, a derivative of Old French teste ‘head’ (ancestor of modern French tête). This in turn went back to Latin testa ‘tile, earthenware pot’ (a relative of testum, from which English gets test), which in the post-classical period was used humorously for ‘head’. English acquired testy in the sense ‘headstrong, impetuous’, but by the 16th century it had shifted via ‘impatient’ to ‘irritable’.
=> test - testy (adj.)
- early 15c., "impetuous, rash," altered from Middle English testif "headstrong" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French testif, Old French testu (Modern French têtu) "stubborn, headstrong, obstinate," literally "heady," from teste "head" (see tete). Meaning "easily irritated, irascible" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Testily; testiness.
雙語例句
- 1. Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
- 上了年紀后本變得有點性急了。
來自辭典例句
- 2. Jack Pan: Who influenced you in your art testy?
- 潘杰客: 你的藝術品味受到誰的影響?
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. They become lamb cropschops Testy once Tasty ones , says Daivd David Johnson.
- 大衛(wèi)繼續(xù)說它們將變成好吃的羊排.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. As testy sick men when their deaths be near.
- 好像暴躁的病人,當死期已近.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. No wonder these people are feeling testy.
- 難怪這些人會感覺心頭火起.
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