grouch
v[I, Ipr]
~ (about sth) (derog 贬) complain 发牢骚; 抱怨
Stop grouching about everything! 别再事事都抱怨了! grouch, n
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(a) [sing] ~ (about sth) (derog 贬) fit of bad-tempered complaining 大发牢骚
He's always having a grouch about something. 他总是发脾气抱怨这个抱怨那个.
(b) [C] ~ (against sth/sb) complaint 牢骚; 抱怨
One of my main grouches against the council is that they don't run enough buses. 我对市议会不满, 主要是投入营运的公共汽车不够用.
2 [C] (derog 贬) sulky discontented person 爱发牢骚的人
You're nothing but an old grouch! 你就是个爱发牢骚的老家伙!
Though my aunt pursued what was, in those days, an enlightened policy, in that she never allowed her domestic staff to work more than eight hours a day, she was extremely difficult to please.