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

• 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。
• Well, his mother explained to ours about a month after they'd got married," he's made his bed and he can lie on it, even though it turns out to be a bed of nettles. "
  “唉，”他们结婚大约一个月后他妈妈对咱妈妈说，“他该自作自受，即使是一盘苦果他也该咽下去。”
• He swished off the tops of the nettles with his cane.
  他用杖抽断了麻的顶部。
• The garden is completely overgrown ( with nettles). She saw a small river with green grass and red flowers on both sides.
  花园里长满了（荨麻科）植物。她看到一条小河，两岸长满了红花绿草。
• 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。
• They plucked the long grass and nettles from the tombs, thinned the poor shrubs and roots.
  他们拔除了坟墓上的茂草和荨麻，砍断矮树和根株。
• Pay Back in one's own coin Some of them were on nettles till they learned your name was Dickson.
  他们中间，有一部分人，在知道你的大名是迪克逊之前一直坐立不安。
• 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。
• Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles.
  爱情是欢乐之园，婚姻是苦恼之地。
• He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
  他得和灌木、荨麻、出楂、野蔷薇、飞廉和一触即怒的黑莓打交道。