harridan

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈhær.ɪ.dən]
• 美式音标 [ˈher.ə.dən]
• 国际音标 ['hæridən]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 脾气暴躁的老泼妇；枯槁的老妇人

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• I've always considered myself a pretty easy-going parent, and yet here they are telling me I'm a nay-saying harridan.
  我一直认为我是一个脾气很好的妈妈，但是他们竟然说我是一个总说“不”的老巫婆。
• Mr Netanyahu’s recent paean to matrimony followed days of ugly reports and swirling rumours depicting Mrs Netanyahu as a henpecking harridan and the prime minister as her squirming victim.
  内塔尼亚胡对婚姻大唱赞歌是对近期丑化其形象的报道及流言的回应，在这些报道和流言中，其妻萨拉被描绘成一个泼妇，而内塔尼亚胡本人活脱脱就是个妻管严的形象。
• Hard to believe that this scrawny, hatchet-faced harridan was Lily's sister, but yes, somehow she bore the traces which marked one who had had the love – however unrequited – of a powerful witch.
  很难相信这个干瘦的，马脸的泼妇是莉莉的姐姐，但是，是的，以某种方式深深刻进她脸庞里的痕迹显示着她是那个强大女巫所爱的人——尽管是未曾回报的爱。

权威例句

• Despite that, nostalgia for the headless warrior or long-haired harridan has not vanished completely.
  ECONOMIST: There is more than you think to the haunting of Japan

词组短语

短语

• harridan n 凶恶的老妇

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• an unpleasant woman, especially an older one, who is often angry and often tells other people what to do

柯林斯英英字典

• If you call a woman a harridan, you mean that she is unpleasant and speaks too forcefully.