- 1愛抱怨的、發牢騷的（較書面）
If someone is querulous, they complain a lot, in a thin, irritated way that wears other people down — not one fair complaint, but a habit of peevish fussing about small things. A querulous voice is the voice of someone picking at problems. It is a formal, slightly old word; you meet it in books more than in the school corridor. It is sharper than “a bit unhappy” and more specific than “angry”: the is in the complaining itself.
組成From Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulōsus, from Latin querulus, from queror (“to complain”). It does not split into living English pieces.
同家族的字
- querulouslythe adverb: in a querulous way
- quarrelboth go back to the Latin for “complain”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
querulousadj/ˈkwɛɹ(j)ʊləs/
- 1
Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
- “Nay, you said as much before,” said the querulous old man, “and yet I was put forth from Kinross, and pillaged by troopers on the road.—[…]”
- "But how am I to obtain such treaty?" asked Monsieur, in a querulous tone.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。