sharp tongue
基本解释
- 说话刻薄
英汉例句
- Fifteen per cent of the workers questioned said female bosses were too `sharp tongued` and a third said it was obvious when it was their `time of the month` because of mood swings.
15％的受调查员工表示，女上司"说话刻薄"，1/3人表示每月的“特殊时期”，她们会因情绪波动而变得更加刻薄。 - This change of tone, plus the fact that a carefully drafted resolution was adopted by consensus, led some Western governments to claim that the sharp-tongued visitor had been neutralised.
这一语调的变化，加上精心起草的决议一致通过这样的事实，使一些西方国家政府宣称，说话尖刻的访问者已经中立化。 - He would, if his sharp-tongued co-author Anna Schwartz is any clue, have condemned the bank bailouts of recent years.
正如那位言辞刻薄的合作者安娜.施瓦茨，他会严词谴责近年来对银行业的救助行为。 - Goldman Sachs' head of public relations, the sharp-tongued Lucas van Praag, has gone from deflecting negative publicity about his firm to taking barbs as the subject of a blistering Twitter parody, authored by a group of financial bloggers who are sharp-tongued snarks in their own right.
FORBES: Pranking Goldman's Lucas Van Praag - WHO, can be counted upon to enter almost any health debate as a sharp-tongued sceptic.
ECONOMIST: A breakthrough moment in awareness of a terrible scourge - Stelios has a hard edge, his own executives privately citing his sharp-tongued "interpersonal skills" as a weakness.
FORBES: Proving Papa Wrong
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- sharp -tongued razor-edged tongue 言词苛刻或厉害
- garrulous and sharp -tongued 令人厌恶
- be garrulous and sharp -tongued 贫嘴薄舌
- be sharp -tongued but not malicious 有口无心
- Sharp -tongued And Thick-skinned 嘴尖皮厚
短语
英英字典
- If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.