A knife is sharpened on the grindstone; steel is tempered in fire.

He grew more and more bad-tempered as the afternoon wore on.

随着下午一点点地过去,他的脾气也越来越坏.

She gets very bad-tempered when she's tired.

她累的时候就爱发脾气。

They walked in bad-tempered silence.

他们心情很糟，一言不发地走着。

I'm a bit short-tempered sometimes.

我有时脾气有点暴躁。

They seem less tense, more even-tempered.

他们看起来不那么紧张，更加平和了。

He was normally a very even-tempered person.

他通常是个非常心平气和的人。

He was a happy, good-tempered child.

他是个快乐、好脾气的孩子。

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

那天的辩论紧张激烈，常常火药味十足。

The early ambitions of youthful enthusiasm soon become tempered with realism.

之前年少时对理想抱负怀有的一腔热情很快便被现实浇灭。

When his headaches developed Nick became bad-tempered and even violent.

尼克出现头痛时脾气就变得很差，甚至还会动粗。

Children are bussed to the grammar schools.

孩子们乘公交车去文法学校.

The children were bussed to school.

小孩们乘客车去学校.

The village children are bussed to the school in the nearest town.

村里的孩子们是用公共汽车送到最近的城里上学的.

We bussed to New York.

我们乘公共汽车去纽约.

Essential services were provided by Serbian workers bussed in from outside the province.

一些基本的服务是由从外省乘坐大巴来的塞尔维亚工人提供的。

He bussed to the city.

他乘公共汽车进城.

To get our Colombian visas we bussed back to Medellin.

为了拿到前往哥伦比亚的签证，我们乘大巴返回麦德林。

He is ardent in temper.

他性情急躁.

His bad temper was aggravated by his headache.

头疼使他的脾气更坏.

He succeeded in keeping his temper within bounds.

他忍住了怒火.