acid-tongued
基本解释
- adj. 尖刻的;讥讽的
英汉例句
- She was not the acid-tongued shrew who defended herself with a vicious vocabulary and a fast lip.
她不是那种伶牙利齿的泼妇,不会用恶毒的词句和如簧之舌来保护自己。
202.115.159.62 - After Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued host of the television show "American Idol," called one singer "insipid," Merriam-Webster noticed a dramatic spike in the number of lookups for the word.
美国 “名嘴”西蒙·考埃尔在主持《美国偶像》真人秀节目中评价一名歌手表现“平淡(insipid)”,之后,韦氏网站上这个词的查询率迅速上升。 - While Rosa is an acid-tongued woman who feeds on a steady diet of vituperative remarks, Hans is a quiet and steady soul, whose poetry is shown when he plays the piano accordion.
FORBES: Reading: The Book Thief - For some time, the hate-target of the second camp has been Giulio Tremonti, Forza Italia's acid-tongued finance minister, who shut them out of discussions, made policies they disliked and announced them without consultation.
ECONOMIST: Italian politics - Based on a short memoir by the talented, acid-tongued journalist Lynn Barber (first published in Granta magazine), the movie is set in 1962, when England was gradually emerging from postwar austerities and the fabled antics of swinging London were just getting under way.
NEWYORKER: An Education