Cantankerous1 [kntkrs] 是一个形容词。在日常,大家常会遇见如此一些人,无论你怎么说或者干什么,他们总爱唱反调,这个词说的就是这种情况。
Collins online Dictionary给出的讲解就是指平时说的杠精。
Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
爱找茬,爱抱怨。
例句:
His dads got a big, pink marshmallow heart. But he buries it determinedly2 beneath a cantankerousness3 that comes from being old, lonely, and struggling to cling to meaning in his life.
他的父亲有一颗大大的、粉色的、像棉花软糖一样的心脏,但却毅然决心把它埋藏在年老、孤独和拼命抓住活着的意义而产生的抱怨之下。