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be cranky about sth
表示对某事物感到恼火。
He is cranky about the delay.
他对延误很暴躁。
易怒的；脾气坏的；烦躁的
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易怒的；脾气坏的；烦躁的
Easily upset or annoyed; grouchy or irritable.
He is cranky about the delay.
他对延误很暴躁。
有故障的；出毛病的。
Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.
暴躁的；易怒的；爱发脾气的。
Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
精神不正常的；古怪的。
Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
易倾覆的(指船舶因货物堆放不当或压载不足)。
Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”).
After a long day at work, my boss became cranky and snapped at everyone.
工作了一整天后，我的老板变得脾气暴躁，对每个人发脾气。
The baby gets cranky when she's tired.
宝宝累了就会变得烦躁。
He's always cranky in the morning before his coffee.
他早上喝咖啡前总是很暴躁。
表示对某事物感到恼火。
He is cranky about the delay.
他对延误很暴躁。
指在某种条件下变得易怒。
She gets cranky when she is tired.
她累了就会变得脾气坏。
cranky 可直接修饰名词，如 mood, person。
He is in a cranky mood today.
他今天情绪暴躁。
Not this
He is a cranky.
Use this
He is cranky.
“cranky”是形容词，不能直接用作名词。汉语中“暴躁的”可以直接作谓语，但英语形容词需要系动词，且不能带冠词。
Not this
She is cranky with me.
Use this
She is cranky.
“cranky”表示易怒的情绪状态，通常不接介词宾语。汉语“冲我发脾气”直接对应英语“be angry with me”，但“cranky”不是针对特定对象的。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
变得暴躁
He gets cranky when he's tired.
他累了就变得暴躁。
感到烦躁
I've been feeling cranky all day.
我一整天都感到烦躁。
坏脾气
She's in a cranky mood this morning.
她今天早上心情不好。
烦躁的婴儿
The cranky baby wouldn't stop crying.
那个烦躁的婴儿一直哭个不停。
脾气坏的老人
Don't mind him; he's just a cranky old man.
别介意他，他只是个脾气坏的老人。
变得更暴躁
As the day went on, he got crankier.
随着一天过去，他变得更暴躁了。
我太暴躁了，都想吐口水了！
Kronk says this in The Emperor's New Groove when he's frustrated.
克朗克在《变身国王》中感到沮丧时说了这句话。
Use cranky naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
想象一个脾气暴躁的人（cranky）不停地转动曲柄（crank），发出刺耳的声音，让人烦躁。
cranky 是非正式用语，多用于形容人或机器易怒或出故障的状态。
Only 'lanky' rhymes with 'cranky' (both /ˈlæŋki/ and /ˈkræŋki/). The other words ('funky', 'chunky', 'stinky', 'lucky', 'spunky') share the -ky spelling but have different stressed vowels (/ʌ/, /ʌ/, /ɪ/, /ʌ/, /ʌ/ respectively).
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.