The child asked for another cake in a fretful voice. 这个小孩以焦急的口气要求再给他一块蛋糕。
The child was tired and fretful. 那孩子又疲倦又烦躁不安。
The child was tired and fretful. 这孩子又累又烦躁。
fretful
[ adj ]
nervous and unable to relax
<adj.all> a constant fretful stamping of hooves a restless child
habitually complaining
<adj.all> a whiny child
Fretful \Fret"ful\, a. [See 2d {Fret}.] Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- {Fret"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Fret"ful*ness}, n.
Usage: {Fretful}, {Peevish}, {Cross}. These words all indicate an unamiable working and expression of temper. Peevish marks more especially the inward spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault. Fretful points rather to the outward act, and marks a complaining impatience: sickly children are apt to be fretful. Crossness is peevishness mingled with vexation or anger.
The premise was simple: Brown as a divorced New York woman struggling with an irresponsible ex-husband, a fretful mom and a nonexistent career.
The fretful Strange won the last two U.S. Opens with long strings of pars, but his eight straight to close here weren't enough.
Perennially fretful of inflation, the West German Bundesbank would be expected to raise interest rates to cool the economy off.
There are more gratuitous coups de cinema per minute than there are quills per inch upon a fretful porcupine. Remaking the 1962 hoodlum-at-large thriller that starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Scorsese provides a lexicon of visual ingenuities.