feisty
英 ['faɪstɪ]
美
- adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的
助记提示
1. fart => *perd- "to break wind" => *pezd- "to fart, to break wind" => feist, feisty.
2. *pezd- (source also of Latin pedere 'break wind', whence English petard 'small bomb').
3. In the 16th and 17th centuries the expression fisting dog, literally 'farting dog', was applied contemptuously to a 'mongrel' or 'cur'. This eventually became shortened to feist, and (mongrels being notoriously combative) feisty was born.
4. Canonical上周四发布7.04版的Ubuntu Linux，昵称Feisty Fawn（勇敢的小花鹿，精力充沛的小鹿，活跃的小鹿）。
双语例句
- 1. At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
- 66岁的她还和从前一样精神矍铄。
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- 2. The soldier looked incredulously at the feisty child.
- 士兵难以置信地看着这个异常顽强的孩子。
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- 3. He was a strong and a feisty old man.
- 他是个很坚强的倔老头.
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- 4. Ms Madlala - Routledge was certainly feisty.
- 马德拉?若勒基的确精力充沛.
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- 5. A feisty girl always wins arguments.
- 一个好拚斗的女孩子时常赢争吵.
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