1.They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.
他们故意给我一匹脾气暴躁而且还咬人的马。
英：[mɔ:'deɪʃəs]
美：[mɔ'deɪʃəs]
mor·da·cious
mor deI shs
mordaciously (adv.), mordacity (n.)
词根：mordant
adj.mordant 有腐蚀性的；尖酸的；辛辣的
n.mordant [助剂] 媒染剂；金属腐蚀剂；金属箔粘着剂
mordacity 辛辣（言词等的）；讽刺（言词等的）
vt.mordant 媒染；用媒染剂处理
Adjective
1. capable of wounding;
"a barbed compliment"
"a biting aphorism"
"pungent satire"
2. biting or given to biting;
"they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"
pointed, keen
"喜欢咬人"，这个词源自1640年代（最初是比喻性的，用于描述言辞、演讲等），来自拉丁语 mordac-， mordax 的词干意为"咬人"，源自 mordēre "咬"，这可能来自 PIE 词根 *mer- 的扩展形式，意为"擦掉，伤害"。中世纪英语中有 mordicant（形容词）"腐蚀性的，腐蚀性的"（在医学中），大约在15世纪初，还有 mordicative。相关词： Mordacity（大约在1600年）。
Latin mordac-, mordax biting, given to biting (from mordēre to bite) + English -ious
1.They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.
他们故意给我一匹脾气暴躁而且还咬人的马。
2.Warton contents himself with what he calls “a sensible criticism,” taken from Harrison, a Protestant minister, and one of the partners of Holinshed’s Chronicle; it is as mordacious as a periodical criticism.
3.Hard, mordacious, no man's friend … that was the David Drennen who at P�re Marquette's f�te sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.
4.Unable longer to endure the lash of his mordacious wit, Shaynon turned and left them alone on the balcony.
5.They deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount.
他们故意给我一匹脾气暴躁而且还咬人的马.
