Fractious

(adj.) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; 'rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas'; 'fractious components of a communication system' .

(adj.) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; 'a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness'; 'a refractory child' .

整理:罗拉

• He got fractious and nervous, and I was obliged to let him go into the streets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Then Thuvia was lifted to the least fractious thoat, Xodar and Carthoris mounted two others, and we set out at a rapid pace toward the east. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

整理:特蕾西