curmudgeonly，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞，作形容詞時譯為“不和悅的；小氣的”。
作為舊式用語常見於文學描寫，其形容詞形式"curmudgeonly"可描述乖戾性情（[2][4]），在英語專業八級考試中屬於重點辭彙（[7]）。發音與詞源 該詞語音系統包含英式與美式兩種發音變體，英式發音強調非重讀央元音/ə/（[4][5]），美式發音則呈現典型r化特徵/kɚ/（[6]）。詞源可追溯至16世紀英國文學，最初...
his youth, he decides, at age 75, to attempt a World Record for distance cycled in one hour for his age group. Giuseppe’s determination and perseverance lead him back to Italy for his training and, ultimately, his attempt at the record. His perfectionism, combined with a curmudgeonly ...
"Forever Rumpole" - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer. Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary allusions, his disdain for personal ...
people from time immemorial, Russell's History of Western Philosophy offered a cogent précis of its subject. Of course this cannot be the only reason it ended up the best selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. Russell's book was 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly ...
