Lye (續：酸鹼 乾溼 單字大集合)

 





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–noun Chemistry.

1. a highly concentrated, aqueous solution of potassium (鉀) hydroxide or sodium (鈉) hydroxide.

2. any solution resulting from leaching, percolation (過濾), or the like. 



aqueous humor

【解】水樣液





　

Marie's kitchen is the "last door on the left"; Stevie's bruise is on the left side of her face; the hangman game progresses from right to left; and the lye or bleach is always to the left of whatever sink Trevor uses. 





。酸鹼值

pungent 

sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power, biting, acrid

It's Dante and Randal who strike back in "Clerks II," a softer, flabbier and considerably higher-budgeted follow-up to Kevin Smith's 1994 indie sensation that nevertheless packs enough riotous exchanges and pungent sexual [obscenities] to make its 97 minutes pass by with ease.

tart 

barb

sulphur 

sulfuric

I'm up to 57 windshield wiper blades in the past six months. Fifty-seven? What are they driving through, sulfuric acid? I expect it's all the locals, spitting on the windscreens. (正) 硫的,含 (六價) 硫的

brimstone

vitreous

vitriolic

vitriol

the subtle hatred between the two women slowly [escalates], nearly reaching a [stage] of vitriol at the end.

Otherwise, they’d know that we try our best to treat our guests with respect, no matter how [vehemently] we disagree and how non-[sensical] we find their views (besides, we save most of our [hate] and [vitriol] for each other!). 

It’s not many films that could inspire such [vitriol] as to warrant something like this on theater's windows nationwide.p



acrimonious

acrid

usually deals with smell

Acrid [fumes] rose from the furnace

acidulous

acerbic

sour or astringent

[Lemon] juice is acerbic

Ray's plans are quickly [scuttled] by his [acerbic] and controlling father 

he balances out the brilliantly [acerbic] Catherine Keener's portrayal of a woman who can only tell others what it is she doesn't want. 

The acerbic Keener has the bitchiest lines in the movie,

Rarely has a movie about dying been as unsentimental as Isabel Coixet's acerbic, heartbreaking melodrama: From the doctor's office to the [deathbed], My Life Without Me is about as far removed from a "disease of the week" TV movie as filmmaking gets.

As in Fast Times, all of the teen characters are quirky and natural, especially Lloyd's female best friends D.C. and Corey (played by an acerbically [lovelorn] Lili Taylor).

Now, as friends and family gather together for a memorable day of dining, dancing, and celebration, everyone braces themselves knowing that, at any given moment, old skeletons may be dragged out and dusted off for display by the bombshell who seems to have an acerbic one-liner for every situation, and a flare for drama that could set their family home ablaze.

caustic

Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse is a brutal, [caustically] hilarious ode [to] the seventh ring of hell that is the seventh grade.

piquant 

agreeably sharp or pungent in taste or flavor

a piquant [aspic].【詩】毒蛇, 調味肉汁

July finds her most piquant sample of enforced estrangement inside a gallery

aspic

She says it's like a city in aspic, left over from a dinner party, and all the guest are dead and gone.

gravy

This gravy's like water.

You know what they put on their French fries there? Mayonnaise?Nope. Better. Gravy.



mordant 

sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker, biting. 

burning, corrosive. 

having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.

and especially Ving Rhames add mordant [humor] to Cage's waking nightmare.

Radha Mitchell is rather [wan] as her chief love interest, 

but Patricia Clarkson is mordantly [funny] and surprisingly [affecting] as her German lover and drug-fiend pal.

It hardly matters, since for the duration of this [mordant], mischievous film you have no real desire to leave their fastidiously decorated [purgatory].

[Crackling] dialogue, mordant [humor], and [un]remitting tension drive the suspenseful stakes of the game higher in Boston’s [precarious] underworld of small-time mobsters, 

Milos Forman's last film in his native Czechoslovakia is a mordant [attack] on the pettiness and hypocrisy of the middle class. 

Though a de facto N.Y.C. companion to Billy Wilder's equally superb and mordant West Coast showbiz exposé Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sweet Smell suffered an ignominious contemporary fate more akin [to] Wilder's acid press satire Ace in the Hole (1951).



litmus 

This September, Toronto is a high-stakes litmus [test]. 石蕊

alkaline 

lye 

and the [lye] or [bleach] is always to the left of whatever sink Trevor uses. 

loam 

froth

Cinematographer Declan Quinn's [even] lighting and [highly] mobile hand-held camera enter wholeheartedly into film's [frothy] spirit,

lather

a [soap] that lathers well.  

He was in a [lather] over my delay. 

The program takes an overnight break, so that viewers can be [whipped] into a lather

slather

to slather [butter] on toast

Find a vulnerable young woman to court, [slather] with affection, and then [callously] dump.

soapsuds

has taken his [spunky] protagonist and literally drowned him in [woes], even—let's face it—soapsuds.

sudser

Informal. a soap opera

any movie, play, or the like that is designed to provoke a tearful response

Franco, who recently made an unlikely [turn] in sudser "General Hospital," has a number of movies in the [can] including the U comedy "Your Highness" and the Julia Roberts starrer "Eat, Pray, Love."



wield

welder 

But The Machinist isn't close to being worthy of his all too visible efforts. It's obvious within minutes that Trevor's [cackling], Lynchian [arc]-welder friend is imaginary, and much of what transpires has a [tepid] hallucinatory aura.

solder

unit the objects without heating

Remarkably, the narrative consists of two contrasting types of films crudely soldered [together]. 





。化學成份

Solder



。乾濕度

Desiccate

















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