A querulous male voice said, "Look, are you going to order, or what?"

一个爱发牢骚的男声说：“看吧，我们到底是要订购，还是怎样？”

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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。

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A century earlier, the symbol of the archetypal Englishman was John Bull, a character portrayed as irascible, strong-minded, querulous, and not particularly neighborly.

一个世纪前，英国男人的典型代表就是约翰·布尔。他被描写为一个易怒的、有主见的、爱发牢骚的、不是特别友好的人。

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

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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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