刻薄

He opened his mouth to make a caustic retort.

他张嘴开始进行反击。

She finished by tartly pointing out that he owed her some money.

她最后地指出他欠她一些钱。

She was the butt of some very unkind jokes.

她受嘲弄。

The company will lend you money on very unfavourable terms.

这家公司会以非常条件借钱给你。

Unkindness is foreign to his nature.

不是他本性。

It was quite understandable to the body now that why the soul acted so acidly and acrimoniously.

它终于能够理解为什么灵魂会对它那样尖酸。

So I learnt the business of conducting that way, through actually doing it and conducting jaded and hardbitten West End musicians.

我以那样指挥方式谋生，并为疲倦和伦敦西区音乐家担任指挥。