职员们在她背后骂她是泼妇等等，但每个人对她的能力却深感敬畏。
The staff called her a virago and other things behind her back, but everyone was awed by her abilities.
比如说，「泼妇」（shrew）这个字，在中世纪晚期指的是佃农。
The word "shrew, " for example, was a late medieval term for peasant.
她不是那种伶牙利齿的泼妇，不会用恶毒的词句和如簧之舌来保护自己。
Eg . She was not the shrew who had a glib tongue to defend herself with a vicious vocabulary and a fast lip.
康尼“科里昂是个不怎么漂亮的女孩，又瘦有容易紧张，将来一定会成为一个泼妇。”
Connie Corleone was a not quite pretty girl, thin and nervous and certain to become shrewish later in life.
康尼“科里昂是个不怎么漂亮的女孩，又瘦有容易紧张，将来一定会成为一个泼妇。”
Connie Corleone was a not quite pretty girl, thin and nervous and certain to become shrewish later in life.
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