be in a temper

基本解释

She'll probably be in a bad temper.
她很可能会发脾气。
The only flaw in his character seems to be a short temper.
他性格中的唯一缺点好像就是脾气急。
There will be close to you temper woman, in fact, is a matter of how much happiness!
身边有个会向你发脾气的女人，其实是一件多么幸福的事！
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But the fact that Peter was a czar and was rather scary in his temperament, because he had a rather bad temper, too, meant that he could be alarming.
而彼得大帝是沙皇,加上发起怒来十分可怕,因为他暴躁易怒,人们畏惧他
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