harridan

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I've always considered myself a pretty easy-going parent, and yet here they are telling me I'm a nay-saying harridan.
我一直認(rèn)為我是一個脾氣很好的媽媽，但是他們竟然說我是一個總說“不”的老巫婆。
Mr Netanyahu’s recent paean to matrimony followed days of ugly reports and swirling rumours depicting Mrs Netanyahu as a henpecking harridan and the prime minister as her squirming victim.
內(nèi)塔尼亞胡對婚姻大唱贊歌是對近期丑化其形象的報道及流言的回應(yīng)，在這些報道和流言中，其妻薩拉被描繪成一個潑婦，而內(nèi)塔尼亞胡本人活脫脫就是個妻管嚴(yán)的形象。
Hard to believe that this scrawny, hatchet-faced harridan was Lily's sister, but yes, somehow she bore the traces which marked one who had had the love – however unrequited – of a powerful witch.
很難相信這個干瘦的，馬臉的潑婦是莉莉的姐姐，但是，是的，以某種方式深深刻進她臉龐里的痕跡顯示著她是那個強大女巫所愛的人——盡管是未曾回報的愛。

Despite that, nostalgia for the headless warrior or long-haired harridan has not vanished completely.
ECONOMIST: There is more than you think to the haunting of Japan

an unpleasant woman, especially an older one, who is often angry and often tells other people what to do

If you call a woman a harridan, you mean that she is unpleasant and speaks too forcefully.