- 1尖酸刻薄的；痛批的
A scathing remark cuts. It criticizes someone or something very hard, with no softness — often clever, often meant to sting. A review can be scathing; so can a comment from a teacher, a parent, or a newspaper. It is a fairly strong, slightly formal word. You would not call a mild that's not great scathing. The feeling is of burning or stripping the skin, though we use it for words, not for fire.
core核心畫面
組成From older scathe, to hurt or harm, plus -ing. The old verb is rare now; this adjective kept the heat.
同家族的字
- scathethe old verb to harm that this comes from
- unscathednot harmed at all — the other living piece of the same family
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scathingadj/ˈskeɪðɪŋ/
- 1
Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
- For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.
- 2
Harmful or painful; acerbic.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- scathe
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。