"short-tempered person," 1650s, from hot in the figurative sense + head (n.); Johnson's dictionary also lists hotmouthed "headstrong, ungovernable;" Elizabethan English had hot-brain "hothead" (c. 1600); and Old English had hatheort "anger, rage," literally "hot heart."
雙語例句
1. He is a hothead and a bully just like his dad.
他和他爸爸一樣都是個恃強(qiáng)凌弱的莽夫。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She's such a hothead.
她真是個急性子.
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3. Or some hothead trying to challenge you because his sister wants to meet you?
你能想象被一些沖動的家伙挑釁僅僅是因為他的妹妹想見見你?
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4. He was such a hothead, he slammed down his coffee mug and broke it.