mordacious如何读

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美:[mɔ'deɪʃəs]

mordacious是什么意思

  • adj.辛辣的;锐利的;尖酸刻薄的,伤人至深的

mordacious自然拼读

mor·da·cious

mor deI shs

mordacious扩展

mordaciously (adv.), mordacity (n.)

mordacious词根

词根:mordant

adj.

mordant 有腐蚀性的;尖酸的;辛辣的

n.

mordant [助剂] 媒染剂;金属腐蚀剂;金属箔粘着剂

mordacity 辛辣(言词等的);讽刺(言词等的)

vt.

mordant 媒染;用媒染剂处理

mordacious英英释义

Adjective

1. capable of wounding;

"a barbed compliment"

"a biting aphorism"

"pungent satire"

2. biting or given to biting;

"they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"

mordacious词源中文解释

"喜欢咬人",这个词源自1640年代(最初是比喻性的,用于描述言辞、演讲等),来自拉丁语 mordac-, mordax 的词干意为"咬人",源自 mordēre "咬",这可能来自 PIE 词根 *mer- 的扩展形式,意为"擦掉,伤害"。中世纪英语中有 mordicant(形容词)"腐蚀性的,腐蚀性的"(在医学中),大约在15世纪初,还有 mordicative。相关词: Mordacity(大约在1600年)。

mordacious词源英文解释

Latin mordac-, mordax biting, given to biting (from mordēre to bite) + English -ious

mordacious 例句

1 They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.

他们故意给我一匹脾气暴躁而且还咬人的马。

2 Warton contents himself with what he calls “a sensible criticism,” taken from Harrison, a Protestant minister, and one of the partners of Holinshed’s Chronicle; it is as mordacious as a periodical criticism.

3 Hard, mordacious, no man's friend … that was the David Drennen who at P�re Marquette's f�te sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.

4 Unable longer to endure the lash of his mordacious wit, Shaynon turned and left them alone on the balcony.

5 They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.

他们故意给我一匹脾气暴躁而且还咬人的马.

mordacious 同义词

7 爱咬人的

snappish

10 咬痛的

biting gnawing

11 刺人的

keen stabbing stingy scorching

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