I wanted to eat my words when I found out that she had painted the picture I criticized so caustically. 当我发现自己作过很尖刻批评的那张画是由她所作时,我想收回前言。
But this argument, the underground points out caustically, has one little flaw: it entirely overlooks that mans, and always will have, a supreme interest, which he will never surrender, in being able to exercise his free will. 但是,如同地下人指出其因果的矛盾,这个论点有个小缺点:它完全忽略了,人的最崇高的利益总是在于能够运用其自由意志,并且永远不会屈服。
caustically
[ adv ] in a caustic vitriolic manner <adv.all> he addressed her caustically
Caustically \Caus"tic*al*ly\, adv. In a caustic manner.
"It would be cheaper," Marshall suggested caustically.
A senior Bush administration official reacted caustically to the Democrats' refusal to join the study.