• He suggested his wife had probably gone off in a temper.

    CNN: January 15, 2013 -- Updated 1645 GMT (0045 HKT)

  • And that is odd, because when it comes to enlargement in general, older members of the club are in a foul temper.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • He was in a violent temper.

    BBC: Shobhna Jethwa death: Married mother had two boyfriends

  • Other women have been more confrontational in the face of obstacles: One entrepreneur, who had started a business in 1990, lost her temper when confronted with a "No Women Allowed" sign in a government department, and ripped the sign off the door.

    CNN: Saudi female entrepreneurs exploit changing attitudes

  • At Wimbledon in June her image suffered a further blow when she lost her temper in an interview with a BBC reporter who suggested she needed to refocus on her game.

    CNN: Anna Kournikova

  • He denied shaking her in a fit of temper, claiming she fell off a stool she was standing on.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | 'Shaken baby' convictions quashed

  • In a spasm of temper Yvonne swung around and opened her hand, flinging away into the river something tiny that gave out one glint of light before it was swallowed without a splash, the water healing instantly behind it.

    NEWYORKER: She��s the One

  • Back then, the dramatically low federal funds rate was enough to spur a wave of borrowing by companies and individuals, so much so that a series of 17 rate increases followed from June 2004 to June 2006 as the Fed tried to temper inflation in a boom period.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • On the face of it, Melville's life was marked by failure: failure to make money, to obtain appointments, to achieve critical recognition, and in the final 19 years as a clerk in the Boston Custom House, failure of temper enough to drive his wife to the brink of divorce.

    ECONOMIST: American writers

  • It has been a long time since Republicans showed a fighting temper of this kind, unyielding in its contempt for what the choice of a Hagel represents about core values like the national defense, our stance regarding the most dangerous of our enemies in the world.

    WSJ: Dorothy Rabinowitz: Chuck Hagel's Defenseless Performance

  • The Wizard of Westwood is candid about his own shortcomings, one of which was a fist-fighting temper in his early days.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In a future case, we ought to temper our Commerce Clause jurisprudence.

    NEWYORKER: Partners

  • Scientists have looked at anger and violence, though, and discovered genetic variations, expressed as concentrations of a particular messenger molecule in the brain, that are both congenital and predisposing to a violent temper.

    ECONOMIST: Modern neuroscience is eroding the idea of free will

  • But new research is showing that immunotherapy, a method of giving a small dose of peanut to a patient in a controlled setting and then increasing the amount over a few months, may help temper these reactions.

    CNN: 'Exciting' advance reported in peanut allergy therapy

  • You have done a nice job of describing how one type of manic episode looks, but in suggesting that what you see might be a temper tantrum you have also identified the challenge that faces us every time we try to give a name to psychiatric troubles.

    CNN: Can a manic episode look like a tantrum?

  • Louis plays a lo-fi version of himself, spending his days drifting through New York, brooding, bingeing on ice cream, slumping in wintry playgrounds, like Charlie Brown with a buried temper.

    NEWYORKER: Black and Blue

  • Berman is an intense, square-jawed man in his fifties, with a scarred body and a quick temper.

    NEWYORKER: Coming Apart

  • He sauntered around the campaign office in his Texas boots, cracking jokes in his tequila-sharp twang and earning a reputation for temper.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Losing my temper I quickly realised some people were in a worse situation, the lady before me was from Newcastle Australia and her house had burned down the previous day, she was crying.

    BBC: NEWS | Have Your Say | Were you affected by BA dispute?

  • For all the talk of his supposed temper and indiscipline, his last red card in a United shirt came almost four years ago.

    WSJ: Manchester United, Wayne Rooney Enter Familiar Territory Over Contract

  • Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-Mortem on the Russian Elections: What 'Centrists'?

  • But in the meantime the spirit of new beginnings is a hard one to temper.

    BBC: Tunisia��s vanguard hotels

  • Knight, of course, had a very visible flaw, an epic temper that erupted in menacing displays and confrontations.

    WSJ: Indiana Hoosiers Are Back, but Missing Bob Knight

  • Some of that anger may have been in the genes: his father, an immigrant baker of German extraction who played little part in his children's upbringing, was said to have a quick temper.

    ECONOMIST: August Wilson

  • Last summer, when schoolchildren in Belgium claimed they became sick after drinking Coca-Cola, Levy recommended a media tour of the factory in Brussels--which helped temper criticism of Coke's aloof response to the initial crisis.

    FORBES: Monsieur Big

  • Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 23, 134.51 after the Chinese government issued a report showing that inflation rose slightly in April, which could temper any stimulus response by Beijing to China's shaky economic recovery.

    NPR: Asia Stocks Mixed After China Inflation Report

  • Last summer, when schoolchildren in Belgium claimed that they became sick as a result of drinking Coca-Cola, Lvy recommended a media tour of the factory in Brussels--which helped temper criticism of Coke's aloof response to the initial crisis.

    FORBES: Monsieur Big

  • He never married but had lots of friends, many in high places, and could be good company, though with a stormy temper.

    ECONOMIST: Handel's anniversary

  • It's no temper tantrum, and it is not, in any sense, a parting shot at his own administration.

    BBC: Robert Gates on Nato's dim future

  • Another obstacle is Mr McCain's legendarily volcanic temper, which the candidate himself admits to: a serious flaw in a man vying to be commander-in-chief.

    ECONOMIST: The presidential race

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定