But just when I get crotchety enough to start shopping for a shawl and rocking chair, along comes what may be the one meme on Twitter that actually warms the cockles of my heart: Follow Friday.(然而當我的脾氣古怪到開始準備購買披肩和搖椅，這種時候也許Twitter上的一個小小的流行因子足以溫暖我內心的波瀾：FollowFriday(星期五跟隨日)。)

He was tired and crotchety.(他累了，動不動就發火。)

Once I did have to climb a tree, when I met two crotchety old bulls along a narrow track.(有一次我確實不得不爬樹，因為我在一條狹窄的小路上遇到了兩只反復無常老野牛。)

On deadline day, the paper's crotchety general manager would suddenly appear over her shoulder, inspecting her work for errors.(在最終期限將至的一天，這位脾氣古怪的總經理總會突然出現在她身邊，給她的工作挑點毛病。)

It seems that he is in crotchety opposition to his father.(看起來，他對他爸爸火氣很大，也很敵對。)

A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives. Down in Florida, my mother describes condo-association bickering as' nitpicking in paradise.(很多老年人脾氣暴躁，因為他們一輩子都在怨天尤人。(在佛羅里達州，我媽媽把公寓里的鄰里爭吵稱為“在天堂里吹毛求疵”。))

At his first face-to-face debate with Mr Obama on September 26th, he refused to look his opponent in the face, which made him seem crotchety and disrespectful.(在9月26號與奧巴馬的第一場面對面的辯論中，他拒絕正面看他的對手，從而讓人們覺得他很固執和失禮。)

A lot of older people are crotchety because they've been complaining all their lives.(很多老年人脾氣暴躁，因為他們一輩子都在怨天尤人。)

Anyone can experience it and benefit from it, even the most crotchety uncle at the Thanksgiving dinner table.(人人都可以感受它，也可以受益于它，甚至對于感恩節晚宴上最變態的大叔也是如此。)

A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.(正像我們可能在智利所說的一封長長的、脾氣暴躁的書信：令人掃興和易怒。)