pet peeve, querulous, peevish , perverse, peeve, discombobulate, perversity

Yale University Press: Anna Karenina is a seminal work in literature. How do you approach translating something like that?

Marian Schwartz: A question straight out of a Marx Brothers movie! The answer, of course, is “very carefully.” Every critic, scholar, and reader has an opinion, a pet peeve, a particular passage dear to her heart. Pity the poor translator who crosses one of them.

China’s economy



Perverse advantage

A new book lays out the scale of China’s industrial subsidies 130

 

 

 

 

 

Myron Tribus "Perversity Principle": "If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.".^[8]

Bryden listed his impressive catch, among them Anna Manahan, from Waterford, playing Mrs Rooney - flopping "down flat on the road like a big fat jelly out of a bowl"; Niall Tobin, from Cork, as blind, querulous Mr Rooney; Dubliners David Kelly and John Kavanagh as Mr Tyler, a retired bill broker and Mr Slocum the racecourse clerk; Belfast's James Ellis as Mr Barrell, the station master; and Dan Colley, a pure county Dubliner, as the boy.  

On the Road, Packing Querulous Erudition By STEPHEN HOLDEN

In Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy," a couple (Juliette Binoche and William Shimell) drive through Tuscany arguing about art, representation and authenticity.

querulous [Show phonetics]
adjectiveoften complaining, especially in a weak high voice:

He became increasingly dissatisfied and querulous in his old age.

quer • u • lous

発音

kwérjuləs | kwéru-

[形]((形式))

1 不満の多い（⇔contented）.

2 〈声・話し（方）などが〉不満［不平］を示す；おこりっぽい(peevish)

in a querulous tone
不満げな口調で.

［ラテン語querulus （querī不平をいう＋-ULOUS）. △QUARREL¹］

quer・u・lous・ly

[副]

The best of these canvases convert Courbet's inborn dissonance into a commanding discombobulation. They challenge and seduce with their brusqueness of surface, inconsistencies of space or scale, emotional ambiguities and alternately frank and improbable accounts of the female form. Some paintings barely hold together; others collapse inward into strange, shapeless masses.

discombobulate(dĭs'kəm-bŏb'yə-lāt')
tr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates.
To throw into a state of confusion. See synonyms at confuse.
[動](他)((米略式))〈計画などを〉狂わせる, 失敗させる, 〈敵などを〉混乱させる.

[Perhaps alteration of DISCOMPOSE.]

discombobulation dis'com·bob'u·la'tion n.

pet hate UK (US pet peeve ) noun [C]
something that annoys you a lot
That's one of my pet hates - people who smoke while other people are eating. 

perverse

Pronunciation: /pəˈvəːs/

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Definition of perverse

adjective

• 1showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable:Kate’s perverse decision not to cooperate held good

• 2contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice:in two general elections the outcome was quite perverse
• Law (of a verdict) against the weight of evidence or the direction of the judge on a point of law.

• 3sexually perverted: an evil life dedicated to perverse pleasure films depicting behaviour which seemed perverse or deviant were seen as more suitable for private therapy than for public consumption

Derivatives

perversely

adverb

[sentence adverb]:perversely, she felt nearer to tears now than at any other moment in the conversation

perverseness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'turned away from what is right or good'): from Old French pervers(e), from Latin perversus 'turned about', from the verb pervertere (see pervert)

peeve(pēv)
tr.v., peeved, peev·ing, peeves.
To cause to be annoyed or resentful. See synonyms at annoy.

n.

1. A vexation; a grievance.
2. A resentful mood: in a peeve about the delays.

[Back-formation from PEEVISH.]

Bright, peevish HC...

Jonathan Swift
When I come to be old.
1699.
Not to marry a young Woman.
Not to keep young Company unless they reely desire it.
Not to be peevish or morose, or suspicious. 

pee·vish (pē'vĭsh)
adj.

1. 1. Querulous or discontented.
   2. Ill-tempered.
2. Contrary; fractious.

[Middle English pevish, possibly from Latin perversus, past participle of perversus. See perverse.]

peevishly pee'vish·ly adv.
peevishness pee'vish·ness n.

pee·vish (pēvĭsh)

adj.

1. 1. Querulous or discontented.
   2. Ill-tempered.
2. Contrary; fractious.

[Middle English pevish, possibly from Latin perversus, past participle of perversus. See perverse.]

peevishly pee'vish·ly adv.
peevishness pee'vish·ness n.



per·verse (pər-vûrs', pûr'vûrs')

adj.

1. Directed away from what is right or good; perverted.
2. Obstinately persisting in an error or fault; wrongly self-willed or stubborn.
3. 1. Marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict.
   2. Arising from such a disposition.
4. Cranky; peevish.

[Middle English pervers, from Old French, from Latin perversus, past participle of pervertere, to pervert. See pervert.]

perversely per·verse'ly adv.
perverseness per·verse'ness n.

perversity[per・ver・si・ty]

 

• 発音記号[pərvə'ːrsəti]
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[名]

1 [U]つむじ曲がり, 強情；邪悪.

2 倒錯, 変態.