刻薄的

She was the butt of some very unkind jokes.

她受到了刻嘲弄。

He opened his mouth to make a caustic retort.

他张嘴开始进行刻反击。

The company will lend you money on very unfavourable terms.

这家公司会刻条件借钱给你。

Unkindness is foreign to his nature.

刻不是他本性。

So I learnt the business of conducting that way, through actually doing it and conducting jaded and hardbitten West End musicians.

我到了那样指挥方式谋生，并为疲倦和刻敦西区音乐家担任指挥。