n.易怒；生气；性急；暴躁
petulancy───n.性急；闹气；狂妄
petulant───adj.暴躁的；任性的；难以取悦的
petulantly───adv.任性地；脾气坏地
postulancy───姿势学
ambulance───n.[车辆][医]救护车；战时流动医院
elance───投射式动作
exultance───n.狂喜；欢欣；得意
parlance───n.说法；用语；语调；发言
penance───n.忏悔；苦修；苦差事；v.使忏悔；使苦修
He affects the disdainful petulance of a rock star.───他假装出摇滚明星般倔傲的任性。
His petulance made her impatient.───他的任性让她无法忍受。
His impolite manners incurred her petulance .───他不礼貌的举动激怒了她。
What Mr. Radcliffe does not seem to possess is the arrogance or petulance that typically comes with such fortune and fame.───一般而言，巨额财富和显赫声名接踵而至，人就会变得傲慢自大、任性无礼，然而雷德克里夫先生似乎并没有这种毛病。
Second, in a pinch, the government lapses into bully boy petulance, throwing economic and military weight around the region.───其次，在必要时，中国政府会表现出街头霸王的任性，在区域内利用经济和军事实力以势压人。
Mr Rooney, however, is hampered by the characteristic English vices of insubordination and petulance.───然而，鲁尼受到了不服从命令和任性等英国人特有的恶习的阻碍。
Today, such hunger and dynamism seem less evident in American life than petulance that the world is not cooperating.───今天，美国人身上的这种渴望和活力看上去弱于他们对世界不与其合作而产生的急躁感。
He tears up the manuscript in a fit of petulance.───他一怒之下把手稿撕碎了。
The footnotes the conference now occupies in the history book relate mainly to Franklin Roosevelt's petulance.───这次会议如今在历史书上占用的脚注主要与富兰克林-罗斯福（FranklinRoosevelt）的莽撞有关。