英['vɪtriəl]美['vɪtriəl]
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来自拉丁语vitrum，玻璃，镜子，铜镜，词源同vitreous，后用于指硫化铁，蓝矾，可能因为其颜色相似而得名。该物质加热后分离出硫酸，因此，引申词义尖酸的，尖刻的。
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小知识
Vitriol is harsh, nasty criticism. You may have deserved some blame when the cake didn't rise, but the head chef's stream of vitriol was unnecessary.
Back in the day, vitriol was the name for sulfuric acid, which burns through just about anything. So think of vitriol as language so mean-spirited and bitter that it could eat through metal: “As a divorce lawyer, you were familiar with vitriol, but nothing prepared you for the time you wore a Red Sox cap at Yankee Stadium.”