vitriol

英 [ˈvɪtriəl]

美 [ˈvɪtriəl]

n.  尖刻无情的话(或批评)

现在分词：vitrioling　过去式：vitrioled　第三人称单数：vitriols　过去分词：vitrioled　

Collins.1 / BNC.35021 / COCA.24575

牛津词典

noun

• 尖刻无情的话（或批评）
  very cruel and bitter comments or criticism

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 尖刻的文字;刻薄的话;讽刺
  If you refer to what someone says or writes asvitriol, you disapprove of it because it is full of bitterness and hate, and so causes a lot of distress and pain.
  1. The vitriol he hurled at members of the press knew no bounds...
     他对媒体的尖刻抨击没完没了。
  2. He has been no stranger to controversy and vitriol during a tumultuous political career.
     在起伏不定的政治生涯里，他对争议和讥讽早已习以为常。

英英释义

noun

• abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
  Synonym:vituperationinvective
• (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide
  Synonym:oil of vitriolsulfuric acidsulphuric acid

verb

• subject to bitter verbal abuse
• expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol

双语例句

• He looks so unassuming, it's hard to imagine one person could have unleashed such vitriol and such a bitter nationwide debate.
  他似乎不带任何启示性，让人很难想象一个人能激发如此的尖酸刻薄的批评，如此在全国范围的严厉争论。
• He is a writer who has often been criticized by the press but never before with such vitriol.
  他是个经常被新闻界批评的作家，但以前从未有如此尖刻的批评。
• It was more of a response from some of the vitriol I've seen tossed at him throughout his career in regards to not meeting lofty expectations.
  这可能是个更好的评价，我见过很多尖酸的评价，因为他的职业生涯没有达到人们过高的期望！
• The vitriol he hurled at members of the press knew no bounds
  他对媒体的尖刻抨击没完没了。
• The vitriol seems to fire up a hardcore of voters but Moore argues that the vast majority even those who would never call themselves liberals want stronger environmental laws, lower executive pay and troops brought home.
  这种刻薄话似乎戳到了选民们的痛处，但摩尔辩称，绝大多数美国人（即便是那些从未自称为自由主义者的人）都希望加强环保法律，降低高管薪酬和从海外撤军。
• Much later, after the divorce and the vitriol, I agreed to see him again.
  在离婚和恶语相加后过了好一阵，我同意再见他一次。
• Behind the vitriol is intense competition.
  在这些冷嘲热讽的背后，是激烈的竞争。
• Much of the vitriol is reminiscent of previous cases in which nationalist sentiments have been stirred up over foreign investors 'attempts to take over Chinese companies.
  许多刻薄言辞令人想起了之前的一些案例：外国投资者收购中国国有企业的意图激发了中国人的民族主义情绪。
• Vitriol leaves a permanent scar.
  硫酸会留下永久的疤痕。
• After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall.
  写完一篇书简体短文后，她就把书写用具丢在蜡画颜料里，任其暴露在硫酸亚铁、绿矾和五倍子中去腐蚀。