8.Dumbledore had gone, Hagrid had gone, but he had always expected Professor McGonagall to be there, irascible and inflexible, perhaps, but always dependably, solidly present...
9.But how was it possible for a man of my undecided turn of mind to argue successfully with so irascible a person as the Professor?
但像我这样犹豫不决的人, 怎么可能和教授这样气暴躁的人辩论成功呢?机翻
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小妇人(双语原版)
10.This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative.
11.Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
12.There was nobody left to tell. Dumbledore had gone, Hagrid had gone, but he had always expected Professor McGonagall to be there, irascible and inflexible, perhaps, but always dependably, solidly present . . .
13.The threat sounded awful, but did not alarm Jo, for she knew the irascible old gentleman would never lift a finger against his grandson, whatever he might say to the contrary.
14.Thence sprang a feverish state of excitement in which the impatient irascible traveller devoted to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable slowness.
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Word of the Day
15.If you try to take apart the word irascible on the model of irrational, irresistible, and irresponsible you might find yourself wondering what ascible means - but that's not how irascible came to be.
16.Here's the word used in a sentence from Rolling Stone by Jon Blistein - If anyone earned the right to be an irascible octogenarian - especially when it comes to music - it's probably Bob Dylan.
17.The key to the meaning of irascible isn't the negating prefix ir- (which is the form of the prefix in- that is used before words beginning with " r" ), but rather the Latin noun ira, I-R-A, meaning " anger" .