It is. Are you a sulker, Neil?

是的。你是个喜欢生闷气的人吗，尼尔？

To a feeling of abandonment, the sulker adds a layer of persecution.

在被抛弃的感觉上，生闷气的人又增加了一层受到苛待的感觉。

Anyone who fails to do this is quickly taken by the sulker to be badly intentioned.

任何未能做到这一点的人就会立刻被生闷气的一方认为是故意如此。

But the sulker acts as if from an unhelpfully romantic hope: that they should be interpreted without needing to speak.

他们应该不需要表达就被理解。

For the sulker, it is a great deal more tempting to devote the next six hours to answering curtly, insisting that nothing is wrong and affecting a pained and melancholy look — than to strive to delineate the nature of their hurt.

对于生闷气的人来说，他们更愿意把接下来的六个小时用于敷衍地回应，坚持说没有什么问题，并表现出痛苦和忧郁的神情，而不是尽力表述他们受到的伤害的实质。