He complained in a querulous voice about having been woken up.

他用不耐烦的声音埋怨别人吵醒了他。

youdao

A querulous time, rather than use your head and think of a way: Why have things like this?

有发牢骚的时间，还不如动动脑筋想想办法：事情为什么会这样？

youdao

Nothing was stirring except a brindled, grey cat, which crept from the ashes, and saluted me with a querulous mew.

除了一只有斑纹的灰猫从灰堆上爬起来，冲我不满的喵了一声外，真是万象具静啊。

youdao

And then, a few querulous sessions later, I began to feel some pride, and not simply in my improved performance.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.

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Michael Portillo, though potentially formidable, returned to active politics after losing his seat in 1997 with the fire in his belly evidently extinguished, a fact confirmed by his strangely querulous bid for the leadership.

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