In the game, the old nice, clean character can be ill-tempered and cunning as he traverses a forbidding wasteland.

游戏中，这个以往友善、干净的角色在穿越一篇险恶荒地时却变得臭脾气、奸诈。

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It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.

那天的辩论激烈紧张，且常常恶语相向。

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In all honesty, bad sounding speakers make me ill tempered and I have yet to find a set that got any better by listening to them for an extended period.

实话实说，不好的冠冕堂皇的发言使我生病脾气，我还没有找到一集，得到了所听的长时间对他们更好。

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If you're a Labour MP the ill-tempered debate was about a 'partisan', 'ill-conceived', 'ill-judged', 'ham-fisted', 'high-handed', 'arrogant' - and I could go on - attempt to impose new electoral arrangements on the Assembly with little regard to what its members, or the people of Wales want, arrangements, at that, that'll favour the Tories in future elections.

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And he would rather have seen a creative defeat than the ill-tempered game that made them national champions a few hours after his death.

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Late in the second half, the game degenerated into an ill-tempered affair as both sides had a player sent off in the space of a minute.

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