He gave them far more reason to be peevish, after all.

毕竟，他给了他们太多可以发怒的理由了。

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Do say you will. I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?'

我想我一定不会跟你发脾气，你是不会惹我生气的，而且你总是想帮助我的，不是吗？

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She reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.

她报告说他是一个多病的任性的东西。

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Publishers were initially peevish about Flipboard since it seemed to be scraping a large enough snippet of content from sites to discourage people from going to the site where the ads are served.

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