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刁钻古怪diāo zuān gǔ guàicunning and eccentric;eccentrically crafty; erratic and wily; perverse; sly and capricious; strange and cranky; unusally cunning
❍ 不知你我这样人家的孩子，凭他们有什么～的毛病，见了外人，必是要还出正经礼数来的。(《红楼梦》718)The thing about boys from families like ours is that,no matter how perverse they may be,they always behave correctly to visitors.
❍ 众人听了，都笑起来，说：“偏他编个迷儿也是～的。”(《红楼梦》630) All the others protested laughingly，“Even when making riddles,she’s full of monkey-tricks!”/诗题也别过于新巧了。你看古人中，那里有那些～的题目和那极险的韵呢？ (《红楼梦》457) The themes for verses shouldn’t be too outlandish. You can see that the poets of old times didn’t go in for far-fetched subjects or freakish rhymes.
❍ 天生下来这一种～的脾气，如何使得？ (《红楼梦》719) But what can we do when he was born with such a strange cranky temper? 刁钻古怪diāo zuān ɡǔ ɡuài刁钻：狡诈；古怪：怪僻。形容狡猾狡诈，与众不同。sly and capricious, strange cranky, wild and peculiar, cunning and eccentric, unusually cunning, perverse, be full of monkey-tricks |