" Not tetchy, mamma: you never hear me speak in an unladylike way" .

“不是脾气暴躁，妈妈：你从来没有听过我说话有失淑女风范”。

" Seems to me you're getting awful tetchy! Don't you like your old friends any more" ?

“在我看来你变得非常暴躁！你不再喜欢你的老朋友了” ？

They’d capture us spending a lot of time at our parents’ house, and growing increasingly tetchy in their company.

他们会捕捉到我们在父母家里度过了很多时间，并且在他们的陪伴下变得越来越暴躁。

When they see their toddler swiftly turning furious, tetchy and jealous, they know that they are not witnessing an inexplicable character transformation in their formerly pleasant charges.

父母看到蹒跚学步的孩子迅速变得愤怒、易怒和嫉妒时，他们看到的不是之前明明很愉快的孩子，性情突然发生无法解释的转变。

This puts Vivendi , Universal's French parent, in an uncomfortable position, as it must reassure its increasingly tetchy shareholders that the ￡100m in predicted synergies will come to pass.

这样的形势，就使得环球的法国老东家—威望迪集团（Vivendi）处在了一个难堪的境地。因为它必须安抚好那些脾气越来越暴躁的股东们，告诉他们百代加入所产生的协同效应，将为集团带来预计1亿英镑的收入。