nettles

英 [ˈnetlz]

美 [ˈnetlz]

n.  荨麻
v.  使烦恼; 使生气
nettle的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 荨麻
  Nettlesare wild plants which have leaves covered with fine hairs that sting you when you touch them.
  1. The nettles stung their legs.
     荨麻扎了他们的腿。
  2. ...numerous clumps of stinging nettles dotted across the meadow.
     数不清的一簇簇扎人的荨麻遍布整片草地。
• VERB 惹恼;冒犯
  If youare nettledby something, you are annoyed or offended by it.
  1. He was nettled by her manner...
     她的举止惹恼了他。
  2. It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really nettled him.
     是那条让他改变策略以赢得选举的建议惹恼了他。
• PHRASE 迎难而上;知难而进;大胆抓棘手问题
  If yougrasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
  1. Some industrialists believe the government should grasp the nettle of devaluation before the referendum takes place.
     一些实业家认为政府应该在全民公决前果断出手解决棘手的货币贬值问题。

双语例句

• Watch out for those stinging nettles!
  当心那些刺人的荨麻！
• This bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard.
  那蔓草丛生的凄凉地方是教堂公墓。
• The other plants turned to nettles and weeds, and died.
  其他的植物都变成了荆棘丛莽，或者枯死了。
• The nettles stung their legs.
  荨麻扎了他们的腿。
• Objective: To study the resource of officinal nettles in Sichuan.
  目的：弄清四川药用荨麻的资源情况。
• I can't be dealing with bushes, nettles, and deadly nightshade.
  我可对付不了那些灌木，荨麻、颠茄。
• I stung myself on some nettles as I was sitting down.
  我坐下的时候被一些荨麻刺痛了。
• Along with perch and pike from nearby lakes, he ate wild plants like nettles, berries and tubers, as well as mice and rats.
  除了吃附近湖里养的鲈鱼和梭鱼外，他还吃野生植物，例如荨麻、浆果和一些植物的块茎，有时候甚至还吃老鼠和兔子。
• How disturbing it was to discover that many of these "seeds" were extremely negative thoughts destined to grow patches of thorny thistles and stinging nettles in our daily lives!
  当发现大多数的“思之种子”都是很负面的思想，注定要在我们的日常生活中长成一丛丛带刺的野蓟、荨麻的时候，这是多么让人烦恼啊！
• But somehow it was Kat that got stung by nettles.
  但不知为何是凯特被荨麻给刺伤了。