bolshy

bolshy

1. A year ago, he made headlines by snapping “Get lost, you jerk,” at a bolshy visitor.

1年前，他对一位反感他的参观者出言不逊：“滚开，混蛋！”制造了头条新闻。

2. But this time there are no pantomime villains, like bolshy shop stewards or incompetent managers, to make sense of the narrative.

但是这次没有童话中的坏蛋，如反叛的售货员或是毫无能力的经理，使得故事的叙述变得有意义。

3. It would be a catastrophic geostrategic failure if Europe and the West were to turn away Turkey, the exemplar of Muslim democracy, because of a small, bolshy Mediterranean island.

如果欧洲和西方各国为了一个不合作的地中海小小岛国而拒绝土耳其这样一个穆斯林民主国家的榜样加入欧盟，那将是一个灾难性的地缘政治的败笔。

4. I asked her to help me but she's being a bit bolshy about it.

我请她帮忙，但她却有点不乐意。

5. I asked her to give me a hand but she's being a bit bolshy about it.

我请她过来帮忙，但她却有点不乐意。

6. America is bogged down in Iraq, the Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan and Iran is flexing its muscles, Russian nationalism is on the rise once again and China is getting increasingly bolshy.

美国正陷于伊拉克战争的泥沼，塔利班在阿富汗死灰复燃，而伊朗也蠢蠢欲动，俄罗斯的国家主义再次崛起，中国也不再是一味顺从的小朋友。

7. Both resorted to higher public spending and debt as an easy option to buy off bolshy voters.

这二人计划通过增加政府开支和负责,以轻松收买顽固选民的支持。