英语释义

• of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

• harsh or corrosive in tone;

  "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"

  "a barrage of acid comments"

  "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"

  "bitter words"

  "blistering criticism"

  "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"

  "a sulfurous denunciation"

• any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue

片语

caustic baryta氢氧化钡

caustic ammonia[无化]

spent caustic废堿液

caustic potash[无化] 苛性钾

caustic curve[数] 焦散曲线

caustic soda[无化] 苛性钠；氢氧化钠

caustic washng咸洗

caustic alkali[无化] 苛性堿

caustic solution苛性堿溶液

caustic embrittlement堿性脆化；[材] 苛性脆化

caustic lime生石灰；[无化] 苛性石灰

caustic wash[化工] 堿洗；氢氧化钠洗

英汉例句

• finally, she talked about the victims of chemical warfare in the middle east and how the caustic chemicals have caused the poor people a multitude of health problems.

  最后，她谈到中东化学战的受害者，她描述了腐蚀性化学物质给当地穷人带来的一大堆健康问题。

• the people are warm, but the environment is so caustic and unbelievably disgusting to be in.

  那里的人很热情，但环境非常恶劣，在这种地方生活令人难以忍受。

• in his early years at apple, his meddling in tiny details maddened colleagues, and his criticism could be caustic and even humiliating.

  早年他在苹果时，最细小的细节他都要插手，这激怒了同事，而他的批评可能是刻薄的甚至于羞辱性的。

• i think appointments are caustic to creativity.

  我认为约会对创造性是种嘲讽。

• on the morning of the stroke, i woke up to a pounding pain behind my left eye. and it was the kind of pain, caustic pain, that you get when you bite into ice cream.

  那天早上，我从睡梦中醒来，发现自己的左脑疼痛不止，那种痛楚跟你咬冰淇淋的那种腐蚀性的感觉一样，它抓住我，然后又放开，然后再次抓住，再次放开。

• the french blogosphere, too, is filled with caustic anti-sarkozy commentary, mocking everything from his taste for rolex watches to his overbearing posse of bodyguards and his tough policies on crime.

  法国博客圈也充斥着尖刻的反萨科奇评论，从他对劳力士表的品味到气势汹汹的保镖和在犯罪上的强硬政策。

• soon he was widely known for his hyperbolic, often caustic critiques (he once called the fbi to report death threats provoked by his column)—and for his incorrect predictions.

  不久，他就以其夸张、尖锐的批判文风和不带準确的语言为人们所熟知（他曾经打电话给联邦调查局报告由于他专栏文章所引发的死亡威胁事件）。

• hydrogen peroxide or caustic soda can also be used to kill bacteria, but it pollutes the water and harms plants, says ms mehra.

  按梅菈的说法，虽然可用双氧水和苛性钠杀菌，但这会造成水质污染并对植物有害。

• one caustic critic referred to claims about the expansionary effects of austerity as amounting to belief in the 「confidence fairy.」

  有一位刻薄的批评人士将这种所谓的紧缩政策引起的扩张性效果比作迷信「信心仙子」。

• nine people were killed and 150 injured when a torrent of highly caustic red liquid gushed over nearby villages, fouling waterways and sweeping away people, livestock and possessions.

  滔天的腐蚀性红色泥浆袭击了附近村庄和航道，沖走人群、牲畜和房屋，共导致9人遇难，150受伤。

• caustic grumbles are excusable when i know my sleep was unconsciously interrupted 24 times overnight. or so i keep telling myself.

  我一直对自己说，假如前一晚我不知不觉醒了24次，那么第二天说些刻薄的牢骚话是可以原谅的。

• when he launched his own microblog in december, it was taken down within hours after anonymous posters peppered the web journal with hundreds of caustic or sarcastic comments.

  当他十二月发布自己的微博，在数小时内被匿名的数以百计的尖刻而讽刺的评论充满了导致他将微博关闭。

• in other words, yes, we「re doing this, and yes, we」ve already got the marketing boilerplate prepared, but no, we don't want to officially announce it until we see how caustic the criticism will be.

  我们确实正在进行筹划此事，而且我们已经準备好了推广口号。不过，在确定市场的批评会有多尖酸刻薄前，我们并不打算正式公布计划。

• the article also notes that the dead sea’s waters are particularly caustic and difficult for divers, which, as a new diver myself, i found particularly interesting/horrifying.

  这篇文章也提到死海的水腐蚀性强，潜水困难。对于我这个潜水新手来说，我发现这尤其有趣/恐怖。

• in between the caustic campaigns, there would be time for constructive dialogue in washington.

  在争锋相对的竞选活动中，也将有时间用于在华盛顿展开建设性对话；

• the majority of oesophageal caustic strictures in children are observed late, when dilatation procedures are likely to be more difficult and carry a significantly higher recurrence rate.

  大多数儿童食道腐蚀性狭窄发现较晚，此时进行扩张手术可能较为困难，而且复发率大大提高。

• these creatures, now called anammox bacteria, transform caustic and hazardous ammonium into dinitrogen, the harmless nitrogen gas that makes up 78% of the air we breathe.

  这些微生物被命名为anammox，它可以把堿和有害的氨转化成氮气，无害的氮气是我们呼吸的空气的主要组成成分，占到了空气的78%。

• in the draize test, caustic substances are placed in the eyes of conscious rabbits to evaluate damage to sensitive eye tissues.

  在眼睛的刺激实验中，腐蚀性物质被注入到意识清醒的兔子眼睛里以测试对敏感性眼组织的伤害。

• the beetle contains a caustic acid-like juice called cantharidin.

  该甲虫体内含有一种腐蚀性的酸性液体，名为斑蝥素。

• astor attracted a great deal of attention, much of it for her caustic and witty comments.

  阿斯特吸引了大量的注意力，很大一部分都是因为她那些刻薄而诙谐的各种评论。

相似词

nipping夹紧；阻止…的成长；造成冻伤（nip的ing形式）

sharp-tongued刻薄嘴的，说话尖酸的

trenchant(Trenchant)人名；(法)特朗尚

bitterad 激烈地；严寒刺骨地

mordant有腐蚀性的；尖酸的；辛辣的

harsh(Harsh) 哈什（人名）

acidulous带酸味的；尖刻的；带讽刺意味的

astringent[药] 收敛剂；止血药

keen敏锐的，敏捷的；渴望的；强烈的；热心的；锐利的

austere严峻的；简朴的；苦行的；无装饰的

slashing猛烈的；严厉的；沖劲十足的；巨大的

virulent剧毒的；恶性的；有恶意的

stringent严格的；严厉的；紧缩的；短缺的

pungent辛辣的；刺激性的；刺鼻的；苦痛的；尖刻的

tart果馅饼；妓女

stern(Stern) （英、以、法、瑞典、西）斯特恩（人名）

sharpad 急剧地；锐利地；突然地

biting咬；抓住；刺进；欺骗（bite的ing形式）

acid酸的；讽刺的；刻薄的

acrimonious讥讽的；（言辞、辩论）激烈的，尖刻的

cutting剪报；插枝，插条；狭窄通道，路堑；切割，切断；割下的东西

acrid（气味）辛辣的，苦的；刻薄的

severe严峻的；严厉的；剧烈的；苛刻的

stinging激烈的；刺人的；刺一样的

incisive深刻的；敏锐的；锋利的

touchy(Touchy)人名；(英)塔奇

edgy尖利的；紧张的，烦躁不安的；（演奏或文字作品）尖锐的，强烈的；（电影、书籍等）激动人心的；前卫的，尖端的，先进的

peevish（尤指因琐事而）易怒的，脾气坏的；爱发牢骚的，抱怨的

ill-tempered脾气暴躁的；坏脾气的

short-tempered易怒的；脾气坏的

waspish尖刻的；易怒的；如黄蜂的；腰细的

irascible易怒的

crabbed抱怨；侧航（crab的过去分词）

testy易怒的；暴躁的

corrosive腐蚀物

insulting侮辱；损害（insult的ing形式）

abusive辱骂的；滥用的；虐待的

boorish粗野的；粗鲁的；粗鄙的；笨拙的；乡土气的

ill-bred粗野的；无教养的；教养不好的

discourteous失礼的，无礼貌的；粗鲁的

churlish没有礼貌的；脾气暴躁的

gruff粗鲁地说；生硬地说

uncivil不文明的；粗野的；失礼的

bearish粗暴的；如熊的；股票看跌的

unceremonious随便的，不拘礼节的；无礼貌的

brusque(Brusque)人名；(法)布吕斯克

rough艰苦；高低不平的地面；未经加工的材料；粗糙的部分

ungracious无礼貌的，没规矩的；没有教养的；讨厌的

short短；缺乏；短路；短裤

abrupt生硬的；突然的；唐突的；陡峭的

blunt钝的，不锋利的；生硬的；直率的

unmannerlyad 粗野地；没礼貌地

rude(Rude)人名；(英、西、瑞典)鲁德；(法)吕德

impolite无礼的；粗鲁的

graceless粗野的；不知礼的；不知耻的

mocking嘲笑；（模仿）嘲弄；不尊重；蔑视（mock 的现在分词）

derisory嘲弄的；嘲笑的

cynical愤世嫉俗的；冷嘲的

ironical讽刺的（等于ironic）；用反语的

derisive嘲笑的，嘲弄的；可付之一笑的

sardonic讽刺的；嘲笑的，冷笑的

ironic讽刺的；反话的

sarcastic挖苦的；尖刻的，辛辣的

satirical讽刺性的；讥讽的；爱挖苦人的

scornful轻蔑的

erosive腐蚀的；沖蚀的；侵蚀性的

burning燃烧的；强烈的；发热的

censorious挑剔的；受批判的（名词censoriousness，副词censoriously）