Brian sighed peevishly.

布赖恩气恼地叹了口气。

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She had grown ever more peevishly dependent on him.

她脾气变得更坏，对他的依赖更重了。

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At times like that the instinctive reaction is to childishly and peevishly cast around in search of somebody else to blame, but the real truth is self-evident and undeniable.

在这种时候，本能的反应是像小孩子一样找一个人来出气，但是事实不争自明，不可否认。

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In last week's History Today magazine (itself a prime example of the genre: it shifts 29, 000 copies monthly) academics sounded off peevishly about televised history.

ECONOMIST: Dumbed-down Britain? You would be stupid to believe it