feisty
adj. 活跃的；好争吵的；烦躁不安的；坚决而据理力争的
adj.
活跃的；好争吵的；精力充沛的；烦躁不安的
英英释义
feisty
adj.
showing courage
"the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
同义词：pluckyspunky
quick to take offense
同义词：huffythin-skinnedtouchy
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
A feisty old lady had to call the electric company for a repairman.
一位火爆脾气的老太太给供电公司打电话要个检修工。
He was a strong and a feisty old man, considering that life is so hard.
他是一个这么强壮和活跃的老人，生活却是如此之艰难。
权威例句
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feisty: [19] Feisty, nowadays a colloquial Americanism for ‘quarrelsome’ or ‘spirited’, originated in Middle English as a term for a ‘farting dog’. It goes back to the now obsolete English verb fist ‘fart’, which came ultimately from Indo-European *pezd- (source also of Latin pēdere ‘break wind’, whence English petard ‘small bomb’ [16], as in ‘hoist with one’s own petard’); like *perd-, the Indo-European ancestor of English fart, this was probably of imitative origin.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.=> fizzle, petard
feisty (adj.)
1896, "aggressive, exuberant, touchy," American English, with -y (2) + feist "small dog," earlier fice, fist (American English, 1805); short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1520s, with present participle of now-obsolete Middle English fysten, fisten "break wind" (mid-15c.), from Proto-Germanic *fistiz "a fart," said to be from PIE *pezd- (see fart), but there are difficulties. The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Compare also Danish fise "to blow, to fart," and obsolete English aske-fise, "fire-tender," literally "ash-blower" (early 15c.), from an unrecorded Norse source, used in Middle English for a kind of bellows, but originally "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [OED].
1. At 66, she was as feisty as ever.
六十六岁的她，从来没有这样精力旺盛过。
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2. Regulators would not just have to deal with a feisty outfit. They would have to cope with one of the world's biggest, pushiest media companies.
监管组织不仅要应对令人焦躁不安的新闻集团。他们还必须与世界上一家最大、最有发展冲劲的媒体公司相竞争。
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3. Ms. Prose depicts Lula as a feisty but daydreamy sort of girl.
带着掺杂屈尊的喜爱，普罗斯女士将卢拉描绘成一个个性强且爱做白日梦的女孩。
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4. So it'll be a real feisty game.
所以这将是一场艰苦的比赛。
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5. Tanya: She's feisty, I love that.
坦尼娅：她的活力，我喜欢。
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6. People who survive cancer get feisty.
经历过癌症的人变的很易怒。
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7. The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
冠军面临着一个勇敢的挑战者。
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8. He's feisty, he's clever and he rarely wastes a pass.
他是一个活力四射、头脑聪明，极少浪费机会的球员。
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9. Viewer 4: Wang Xifeng isn't feisty and Lin Daiyu is too fat.
观众4：王熙凤不够泼辣，林黛玉太肥。
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10. Wahaha is run by a feisty entrepreneur who calls all the shots;
娃哈哈的老总是一位精力充沛的企业家，操控着全局；
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11. Mr Murdoch's feisty character has helped his company become bold.
默多克先生争强好胜的特性已经让他的公司变得大胆。
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12. Recognizee that a feisty little voice lives inside every one of us.
你要认识到每一个人心里都住有一个精力充沛的小声音。
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13. She's still feisty though, like she was in season one, which is fun.
但是她还和第一季里一样脾气暴躁，这一点很有意思。
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14. He was a strong and a feisty old man, considering that life is so hard.
他是一个这么强壮和活跃的老人，生活却是如此之艰难。
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15. All told, it was a feisty call to action-around a largely sensible agenda.
总体而言，这是一个催人奋进的战斗召唤，而其围绕的议程也大体合理。
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16. He was always feisty and competitive, so I thought if he grew, he could be good.
说，“但是他一直都很好强也很上进，所以我知道只要他长大，他就会变得很好。”
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17. On the whole, it was more structured and less feisty, a bit like the first debate.
总体来说，这个环节更有条理，大家更冷静一些，与第一场辩论有点相似。
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18. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ tells the tale of how the aloof Mr. Darcy came to be with the feisty Ms. Elizabeth Bennet.
《傲慢与偏见》一书讲述了冷漠的达西先生和热情好辩的伊丽莎白·班纳特小姐结合的故事。
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19. I must admit that at this point I began to fall in love (in an un-chimpanzee like way) with this feisty older lady.
我必须承认，在这一点上我开始喜欢上这个精力充沛的老太太了(不是黑猩猩那样的喜欢)。
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20. Worst of all, ranking by reputation allows famous places to coast along, while making life hard for feisty upstarts.
最糟糕的是，以名气来排行，也使得名校失去了上进心，而力争上游的学校却因此举步维艰。
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21. Companies may find themselves up against feisty rivals that they have never heard of, not to mention unscrupulous pirates.
公司会发现自己遭遇从未听过的活跃对手，更不用说不道德的剽窃了。
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22. Not that certain men needed telling. As old age encroached, it seems that Sylvia gave up trying to control her feisty daughter.
不是某些男人的告密，因为年纪大了的原因，似乎西维亚放弃了对脾气暴燥女儿的管束。
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23. Sir Alex Ferguson expects a "feisty" Manchester Derby at Old Trafford on Sunday, but has warned that United cannot afford defeat.
弗格森爵士预计周日的城市德比是一场谁也不能输的比赛，特别是曼联。
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24. But the number of chances were outweighed by the number of bookings - eight in total - as the game continued to be feisty rather than fluent.
但是，他们获得的机会还不如吃到的黄牌多——一共被出示了8张黄牌——这让比赛进行的激烈却不精彩。
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25. He's a feisty ultraconservative who has managed, seemingly on purpose, to make enemies of all the other casino owners, a pretty friendly group.
他是一个活跃而又超级保守的人，他成功地，也似乎是故意地把其他赌场大亨的敌人们变成了一个友好的小团体。
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26. Nowadays, many foreigners have become very suspicious of feisty peddlers or retailers, as they cannot tell whether their kindness is truly honest.
如今，许多外国人已经非常怀疑活跃的小商贩或零售商，因为他们无法判断他们的善良是否真正诚实。
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27. Rebekah Francis, a feisty local tour guide who is one-quarter Aborigine, says she can tell people's attitudes simply by what they call the place.
喜欢据理力争的当地导游瑞贝卡•法兰西斯有四分之一的澳洲原住民血统。
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28. Rebekah Francis, a feisty local tour guide who is one-quarter Aborigine, says she can tell people's attitudes simply by what they call the place.
喜欢据理力争的当地导游瑞贝卡•法兰西斯有四分之一的澳洲原住民血统。
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