He was tired and crotchety.
他累了，动不动就发火。
1.有怪想的,有怪癖的
1.someone who is crotchety gets easily annoyed
1.The next thing I knew, his crotchety neighbor was laying out his ideas on Israeli foreign policy at the top of his lungs.
接着，他那古怪的邻居就开始声嘶力竭地发表他对以色列外交政策的意见。
2.the truth was that Humfrey was a crotchety old man who preferred isolation in the wilderness.
实际情况是汉弗莱是一个性情古怪的老头，喜欢一个人隐居在荒野外。
3.It was one of those rare occasions when I ignored the crotchety old voice that spoiled my fun.
像这样无视那扼杀了我的乐趣的古怪声音，还真是屈指可数。我总算是开了窍。
4.My character is the sort of crotchety Yankee show -me type, and I'm not there to actually do the cooking.
我的性格属于那种美国式的想入非非的自我展示型，我实际上不是真的在烹调。
5.It's hardly surprising that this bold, or perhaps crotchety , proposal was instantly controversial.
不出所料，这个大胆，些许有些离奇的建议一经提出便立刻引起争议。
6.On deadline day, the paper's crotchety general manager would suddenly appear over her shoulder, inspecting her work for errors.
在最终期限将至的一天，这位脾气古怪的总经理总会突然出现在她身边，给她的工作挑点毛病。
7.n. It seems that he is in crotchety opposition to his father.
看起来，他对他爸爸火气很大，也很敌对。
8.Anyone can experience it and benefit from it, even the most crotchety uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
人人都可以感受它，也可以受益于它，甚至对于感恩节晚宴上最变态的大叔也是如此。
9.A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.
正像我们可能在智利所说的一封长长的、脾气暴躁的书信：令人扫兴和易怒。
10.Once I did have to climb a tree, when I met two crotchety old bulls along a narrow track.
有一次我确实不得不爬树，因为我在一条狭窄的小路上遇到了两只反复无常老野牛。