Translation for "atrabiliario" to english

Atrabiliario

adjective

• bad-tempered

Translation examples

bad-tempered adjective

La prueba de que todavía está en sus cabales es la reacción que tiene ante el mareo que lo asalta en la calle, el último de una serie de episodios que ha mantenido en secreto: ir de inmediato a la clínica, decisión en su caso absolutamente insólita, tan proverbiales son el desdén que ha profesado siempre por el mundo médico y la salud —o la soberbia— que le han permitido prescindir de él y, ya en la clínica, confinado a una silla de ruedas que primero rechaza y muy pronto lo apasiona, igual que una estúpida joya adulta al niño atrabiliario que descubre qué uso darle para volverla contra sus dueños, objetar las medidas que los médicos proponen para estabilizarlo, tratarlos de inútiles y escapárseles a bordo de la silla, lanzándose a toda velocidad por las rampas de la guardia de la clínica.
His reaction to the dizziness that overcomes him in the street—the latest in a series of episodes he’s been keeping secret—proves that he’s still in his right mind: he goes straight to the hospital—an absolutely astonishing decision for him, given the disdain he’s always so famously professed for the medical world, and the equally famous good health, or pride, that has enabled him to manage without his son—and after arriving and being confined to a wheelchair that he initially rejects but is soon thrilled by, like a bad-tempered child who’s figured out how to turn some stupid adult treasure against its owners, he objects to every method by which the doctors propose to stabilize him, treating them as though they’re completely useless, fleeing them in his chair, and launching himself at full speed down the ramps in the emergency room.