bilious

[US]/'bɪlɪəs/
[UK]/'bɪlɪəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 胆汁に関する、短気な。

Phrases & Collocations

bilious temperament

胆汁質の気質

biliousness

胆汁質

bilious attack

胆汁発作

Example Sentences

a bilious olive hue.

胆汁色のオリーブ色。

outbursts of bilious misogyny.

胆汁的な女性嫌悪の爆発。

He was a bilious old gentleman.

彼は胆汁質の老人だった。

bilious taste in the mouth

口の中の胆汁的な味

Real-world Examples

He knew but two types of Methodist—the ecstatic and the bilious.

彼はメソジストの2種類しか知らなかった—エクスタシーとビリウス。

Source: Adam Bede (Part One)

And we kinda tried to really turn him really into this bilious little man.

そして、私たちは彼を本当にこのビリウスな小男にしようとした。

Source: GQ — Representative Roles of Celebrities

A stunted, smoked-blackened tree at the corner had put out new leaves of a bilious green.

角にある縮んだ煙で黒くなった木は、ビリウスな緑の新しい葉を出していた。

Source: The heart is a lonely hunter.

The malady itself, one from which she had often suffered, a bilious fever—its cause therefore constitutional.

その病気自体、彼女がしばしば苦しんだもので、ビリウス熱—その原因はしたがって体質的なものだった。

Source: Northanger Abbey (original version)

This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity.

これは可哀そうなメアリーには少し多すぎた; 時々彼女をビリウスにし、時々彼女の重みを乱した。

Source: Middlemarch (Part Two)

He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.

彼は食卓で常に暴食し、それが彼をビリウスにし、ぼやけた目とたるんだ頬を与えた。

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

Mr Leach is at his best when profiling men such as Edwards, Scudder and others, including solitary, taciturn Herman Strecker and resentful, bilious Augustus Grote.

リーチ氏はエドワーズ、スカダーなどの男を描写する時が最も冴えており、孤独で無口なハーマン・ストレッカーや恨みを抱くビリウスなアウグストゥス・グローテを含む。

Source: The Economist - Arts

Even the street organs put me in a happy mood; I owe many a page to them — written when I should else have been sunk in bilious gloom.

ストリートオルガンさえも私を幸せな気分にしてくれた; 私は彼らに多くのページを負っている — そうでなければビリウスな陰鬱に沈んでいた時に書かれた。

Source: Essays on the Four Seasons

The only thing that Fernanda noted in the man whom a few months later she was to expel from the house without remembering where she had seen him was the bilious texture of his skin.

フェルナンダが数ヶ月後に家から追い出すことになる男について、彼女が唯一注目したのは彼の肌のビリウスな質感だった。

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

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