0 A strident sound is loud, unpleasant, and rough. -- 刺耳的，尖厲的
People are put off by his strident voice. 人們很厭惡他那刺耳的嗓音。
1 expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people -- 措詞強硬的，咄咄逼人的
They are becoming increasingly strident in their criticism of government economic policy. 他們對政府經濟政策的抨擊越來越猛烈。
On one side, there is the folklore supporting a romantic and sometimes strident linguistic nationalism.
These features were vocalic, consonantal, compact, diffuse, low, stressed, nasal, continuous, voiced, sharp, and strident.
Or, affronts to dignity may produce strident reactions that harm patient/family-professional relationships and impair healthcare goals.
As it appears here, the chord is strident, suggesting a link to the world outdoors.
Even casuist and hermeneutic approaches, known for their strident rejection of principalism, fail to expand the parameters of the case itself.
Communism was by now always and everywhere "godless," making the presence of a strident atheist intrinsically problematic.
They emanate from a fair-minded approach to strident debates-written, if you will, from the center.
What is more, that such exasperation was often expressed in strident terms.
