fiery-tongued
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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That breathes fire; fire-breathing.
— Obey, if you will, the law of the baser passions, - appetite, pride, selfishness, - but know, they will scourge you into realms where the air is hot with fiery-tongued scorpions, that will sting and torment your soul into unutterable agonies!
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That speaks or preaches with zeal, vivid imagery, and uncompromising urgency; vitriolic; acerbic.
— Ossian survives in him: behold that melancholy retrospect, that gloom, that melodious wail. And especially, as I have said, do his immediate ancestors survive in him, his sturdy, toiling, fiery-tongued, clannish yeoman progenitors: all are summed up here; this is the net result available for literature in the nineteenth century.
副词 adv.
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Breathing fire.
— He would never again streak fiery-tongued across a midnight sky spreading death and shuddering fear.
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