barbed comments meaning in Chinese
刺人的话
Examples
- If you spend much of your life arguing that language is incapable of expressing objective truth and challenging the basis of the western rationalist tradition , i suppose you must expect a barbed comment or two when you expire
如果你把一生大部分时间都花在以下两件事上：一是声称语言无法表达客观真理，二是挑战西方理性主义传统的基础，那么我猜想，到你过世时，你必然会遭到一两句尖刻的评价。