词汇释义

trenchantUK  /ˈtren.tʃənt/ US  /ˈtren.tʃənt/TEM8  GRE

adj, You can use trenchant to describe something such as a criticism or comment that is very clear, effective, and forceful.批评、评论等鲜明的，犀利的，尖锐的，中肯的

外刊例句

1. Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, "people" were suggesting that "precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying".(The Guardian)

2. I don't know what you are paid to express such unreserved and trenchant views, but it surely cannot be enough.(The Guardian - Opinion)

3. Cable covered more ground than the others too, and he was more trenchant and more direct more often, while they flannelled.(The Guardian - Opinion)

4. But the president, a man with high blood pressure, was trenchant: "Who do you think you are, you treacherous shits?(The Guardian)

5. The news for SF may therefore be both good and bad: Good, because with a trenchant, well-organised 32 county partner, there is a greater chance of maximising nationalist votes (the biggest hole in the demographic theory is growing middle class nationalist apathy) in any future border referendum.(The Guardian - Opinion)

6. In fact, it is too bedded in the detail of individual lives to be either of these things, as if everyone involved was well aware that the political is always more trenchant when rooted in the personal.In this section A lot of exceptional interest Not too great.(The Economist)

7. When people even trenchant supporters of America, like this newspaper harped on about such details as due process, the Geneva Conventions or the importance of explaining his policies personally to critics, it was proof of our weak-mindedness.Now something was it, one wonders, Abu Ghraib?(The Economist)

8. Likewise, Union fury at secessionists for having started the whole horror show in the first place is understandable. Mr Doctorow's writing here is magnificent, the details he selects unerringly trenchant: "the wagon bumping over dead dogs every hound to be seen was shot through the head".(The Economist)

9. Boycotting Israeli universities, they note, actually hurts some of the occupation's most trenchant critics (and may thus be unlikely to bother Israeli hawks).Even fans of BDS do not fully agree on the best way forward.(The Economist)

10. Even if he can withstand the opposition's scorn, dismay and anger, he faces trenchant distrust in his own camp.(The Economist)

11. After her release she was met by thousands of supporters at the gates of her home, where she read a cautious yet trenchant appeal for "peaceful revolution".(The Economist)

词汇搭配

critic, criticism, critique, view, analysis, opinion, supporter, weapon, image, sword

词汇来源

early 14c., "cutting, sharp," from Old French trenchant "cutting, sharp" (literal and figurative), present participle of trenchier "to cut" (see trench). Figurative sense in English is from c. 1600.

近义词

cutting, edged, edgy, honed, keen, sharp, sharpened

反义词

blunt, blunted, dull, dulled, obtuse

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