1. pettishness

1. For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
    对我来说，我承认，她的怪脾气正是她的可爱之处。

2. Why, she is too old for such pettishness.
    她那么大了，不会为这点小事闹别扭的。

3. The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness had yielded to a listless apathy.
    原先那种暴性子，本来还可以被爱抚软化成娇气，现在却变成冷淡无情了。

4. The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.
    原先那种暴性子，本来还可以被爱抚软化成娇气，现在却变成冷淡无情了；小孩子为了要人安慰而麻烦人的那种任性少了一些，添上的却是一个确实有病的人那种对自己坏脾气的专注，抗拒安慰，并且准备把别人真诚的欢乐当作一种侮辱。