shrewish
英 [ˈʃru:ɪʃ] 美 [ˈʃruɪʃ]

adj.

泼妇一样的，（尤指妇女）爱骂街的，脾气暴躁的；泼辣；

英英释义

shrewish[ 'ʃruiʃ ]

• adj.continually complaining or faultfinding

  "a shrewish wife"

  同义词：nagging

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The old fisherman was cursed by his shrewish wife.
   老渔夫被他那厉害的老婆骂了一痛。
2. She used her shrewish personality to get what she wanted and forced people to listen to her.
   她运用自己泼辣的个性来取得她所想要的，同时她也逼迫他人听从自己的意见。

权威例句

The Shrewish Wife of Socrates
Shrewish labours of the untamed Bulgarian theatre posters
Shrewish sound (Tony Meola's sound design for the Broadway revival of 'Kiss Me, Kate')
Interpretation of Shrewish Female Images in Western and Chinese Literature
The Taming of the Shrewish The Presidency at the Heart of Informal Council Dynamics
Chaucer's Merchant and his shrewish wife: the Justinus crux and Augustinian theology
Your Problems: MIRIAM'S PHOTO CASEBOOK: Tempted to Stray: Shrewish Jane Must Say Sorry
The Inversion of Marital Hierarchy: Shrewish Wives and Henpecked Husbands in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature
Women in Boudoir in High Society Being Jealous and Shrewish as a Prevailing Practice in the Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties
(聊斋志异•江城)悍妇形象解析 = An investigation of the shrewish female image : Jiang Cheng in “strange stories” (Liao Zhai Zhi Yi).