acrimonious

英 [ˌækrɪˈməʊniəs]

美 [ˌækrɪˈmoʊniəs]

adj.  尖刻的; 讥讽的; 激烈的

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Collins.1 / BNC.18668 / COCA.20973

牛津词典

adj.

• 尖刻的；讥讽的；激烈的
  angry and full of strong bitter feelings and words
  1. His parents went through an acrimonious divorce.
     他的父母在激烈争吵中离了婚。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （言辞、争吵等）尖刻的，激烈的
  Acrimoniouswords or quarrels are bitter and angry.
  1. There followed an acrimonious debate.
     接着是一场唇枪舌剑的争辩。

英英释义

adj

• marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  1. an acrimonious dispute
  2. bitter about the divorce
  Synonym:bitter

双语例句

• A quarrel over one property caused the final, acrimonious break in 1997.
  结果到1997年，因为一处地产，两人吵了起来，导致了最终的决裂。
• His diplomatic style was evident in the acrimonious board debates over the pay of Richard Grasso, then head of the New York Stock Exchange.
  在董事会关于时任纽约证交所（nyse）首席执行官理查德格拉索（richardgrasso）薪资问题的激烈辩论中，他的外交风格显露无遗。
• There followed an acrimonious debate.
  接着是一场唇枪舌剑的争辩。
• For more than 40 years, iron ore prices have been settled in secretive and often acrimonious negotiations between global steelmakers and miners.
  40多年来，铁矿石价格一直是通过全球钢铁商和矿商之间的秘密的往往充斥着火药味的谈判敲定的。
• An acrimonious dispute broke out.
  爆发了一场激烈的争论。
• The Italian press attributed the acrimonious split to the couple's southern blood he is originally from Olbia in Sardinia, while his wife was born in Naples.
  意大利媒体将这起带有讽刺意味的离婚案归咎于这对夫妇的南部血统丈夫来自撒丁岛的奥尔比亚，而妻子则是出生在那不勒斯。
• His marriage disintegrated, and an acrimonious divorce that took away most of his assets.
  他的家庭发生了纠纷，一场唇枪舌剑的离婚官司耗费了他绝大部分资财。
• Every country south of Rwanda has had acrimonious debates about Chinese "exploitation".
  卢旺达南部的国家，都在中国扩张问题上存在尖锐的对立立场。
• The transcripts provide ammunition to both sides in the increasingly acrimonious debate as to whether Mr Greenspan and the Fed should be held responsible for the housing bubble and its subsequent bust.
  格林斯潘和美联储是否应为房地产泡沫的形成及破裂负责？有关这一问题的争论目前正愈演愈烈，而上述会议纪要为辩论双方都提供了攻击对方的弹药。
• An acrimonious meeting, discussion, atmosphere.
  争吵激烈的会议、讨论、气氛。