short-tempered

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌshort-ˈtempered adjective  BAD-TEMPEREDtending to become angry very quickly 脾气暴躁的，易怒的 → bad-tempered She gets short-tempered when she’s tired. 她累了就会脾气暴躁。 —short temper noun [countable]

Examples from the Corpus

short-tempered• During those months I became anxious, short-tempered and critical.• You become tense, short-tempered and irritable with other people.• His father was growing short-tempered as one interview after another proved to be fixed in some one else's favour.• He is too short-tempered, for one thing, and also capable of doubt, anxiety, weariness, fear.• When John was so short-tempered, it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation.• Did they guess why she was so short-tempered of late?• He tends to be very short-tempered when he's hungry.• She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.

ˌshort-ˈtempered adjectiveChineseSyllable  

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short-tempered
ˌshort-ˈtempered adjective
tending to become angry very quickly ⇨ bad-tempered:
    She gets short-tempered when she’s tired.
—short temper noun [countable]