trenchant

adj.

1. 尖锐的；有效的；鲜明的
   expressed strongly and effectively, in a clear way

1. ADJ-GRADED （批评、评论等）鲜明的，犀利的，尖锐的，中肯的
   You can use trenchant to describe something such as a criticism or comment that is very clear, effective, and forceful.
   1. He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism...
      他因这番尖锐的批评而万念俱灰，茫然不知所措。
   2. His comment was trenchant and perceptive.
      他的评论既一针见血又鞭辟入里。

1. He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism
   他因这番尖锐的批评而万念俱灰，茫然不知所措。
2. His comment was trenchant and perceptive.
   他的评论既一针见血又鞭辟入里。
3. Some of their comments were quite trenchant.
   他们的有些批评十分尖锐。
4. His speech was a powerful and trenchant attack against 〔 on 〕 apartheid.
   他的演说是对种族隔离政策强有力的尖锐的抨击。
5. They became vocal, even trenchant, in their discontent.
   他们大声甚至是犀利的表达自己的不满。
6. Who besides Michael Jackson would follow a tender love song with a trenchant critique of the media?
   除了迈克尔·杰克逊，还有谁会在尖锐地批评了媒体后，再接一首温柔情歌？
7. My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread-and-butter for us, that never varied.
   我姐姐给我们切面包、涂奶油，总是手脚麻利，十分轻快，而且动作一成不变。
8. Sitting alone in the study, the aroma of hibiscus touches, listen to Chinese parasol falls outside the window leaves with trenchant.
   独坐于书房，有木槿的香气飘入，听窗外梧桐叶飘落的叹息分明。
9. Even Hung, I am surprised to find, is a trenchant critic of how China is portrayed in the west and she complains that when she is overseas, she still gets asked how she got out of the country.
   我惊奇地发现，即使是洪晃，对于西方人对中国的描述也持尖锐的批评态度。她抱怨称，直到现在，在海外的时候，还有人问她是如何从中国脱身的。
10. The timing is provocative, three weeks before the US presidential election, because Mr Krugman has been a trenchant and influential critic both of the Bush administration and of John McCain.
    时间安排具有挑衅性，因为克鲁格曼一直是针对布什政府和麦凯恩（JohnMcCain）犀利而又具有影响力的批评人士，而现在离美国大选还有三个星期。
11. Many of her trenchant articles together with those of Rewi Alley can be found today in the yellowed volumes of the magazine.
    她和路易艾黎的那些词锋犀利的文章，今天还可以从那份杂志发了黄的卷页上找到。
12. His trenchant sense was never stopped by his rules of daily prudence, but was always up to the new occasion.
    他那锋利的感觉从不会被日常的谨慎弄得愚钝，总是准备欢迎新情况。
13. His article is trenchant. His is a cut-and-thrust style without any flourish.
    他的文章风格犀利明快，没有任何华丽的词藻。
14. China has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the United States 'plan for missile defense. Talking China out of its trenchant opposition to NMD is going to be tough.
    中国多次表示反对美国的导弹防御系统计划。想劝说中国放弃对nmd坚定的反对立场是很困难的。
15. Her trenchant, acid wit.
    她那种犀利尖刻的机智。
16. He wrote a series of trenchant articles on the state of the British theatre.
    他就英国剧院的状况写了一系列犀利的文章。
17. When researchers gathered together to talk about how to foster openness in biology and medical research, one of the most trenchant and moving presentations came from a22-year-old college dropout.
    在研究人员聚集一堂谈论如何促进生物学和医学研究的开放性时，一名22岁的退学生发表了一段最犀利动人的演讲。
18. Dorothy parker's writing is characterized by a trenchant wit and sophistication.
    多罗茜帕克作品的特别是机智、老练。
19. First, the lonely boar-spears and knives of the chase had been reddened as of old; then, had gleamed trenchant in the morning sunshine;
    起先清冷的狩猎用的野猪矛和猎刀按往常一样先泛出红光，然后便在晨曦中清晰地闪亮；
20. Li fang We used to say she is misunderstood, trenchant.
    我们以前对她都是误解，说分明就好了。
21. Such thinking can be challenged with trenchant assessments of the risks present in each new market.
    通过对各个新市场中存在的风险做出明晰的评估，我们就可对这种自负的想法提出质疑。
22. From the structure arrangement, the emphases of this paper is trenchant.
    同时在结构安排上祥略有次，重点突出。
23. A trenchant wit [ style]
    锋锐的机智[格调]
24. Geographic Environment is a huge and open system, which has quite trenchant arrangement and integration.
    地理环境是一个开放的巨系统，系统本身又具有较为分明的层次性和综合性。
25. Engineering plastics are those special polymers with excellent properties, which can be used as constructional materials, even in trenchant chemical and physical circumstance.
    工程塑料是指一类可以作为结构材料，在较宽的温度范围内承受机械应力，在较为苛刻的化学物理环境中使用的高性能的高分子材料。
26. The strong moral sense, the vivid folk style, and the trenchant anti-modernism distinguish him from other novelists of the time.
    强烈的道德感、鲜明的民间化倾向和反现代性立场是张炜区别于当代文坛其他小说家的鲜明特色。
27. But a digital image need occupy considerable store units, for example, the numeral rate of a trenchant television signal amounts to 1.3Gb/s. It is apparently difficult and uneconomic to store in real time or transfer so much data capacity.
    然而数字图像占用的存贮空间相当大，一路数字化的高清晰度电视信号，其数码率高达1.3Gb／s，显然要实时存贮或传送这样大的数据量，是非常困难和不经济的。
28. Inheriting the ironical tradition in British literature, he depicts in a trenchant and humourous tone of writing a real picture of British social reality after World War ⅰ, including politics, culture, social custom and human nature.
    他继承了英国文学中的反讽传统，以犀利而幽默的笔调描绘了一幅一战后英国的社会现实之画，涵盖了政治、文化、社会风俗以及人性等诸多方面。

adj

1. clearly or sharply defined to the mind
   1. clear-cut evidence of tampering
   2. Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest
   3. trenchant distinctions between right and wrong

   Synonym:    clear-cutdistinct

2. characterized by or full of force and vigor
   1. a hard-hitting expose
   2. a trenchant argument

   Synonym:    hard-hitting

3. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
   1. searching insights
   2. trenchant criticism

   Synonym:    searching