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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On second thoughts, however, he said that he was so ill-tempered that most of his students avoided making him mad.

但是，他又想了一想，说自己脾气很坏，大多数学生都避免惹他生气。

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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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She's rank, ill-tempered, pungent in all senses.

不管怎么说都粗鄙，坏脾气，刻薄。

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After a lengthy and at times ill tempered debate, 53 MLAs backed the ban on private clinics, more than the 40 politicians who voted against.

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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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Global One has been especially fraught in recent months because of the ill-tempered jockeying between Sprint's European partners.

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