Prick
[prɪk]
解释:
(noun.) the act of puncturing with a small point; 'he gave the balloon a small prick'.
(verb.) to cause a sharp emotional pain; 'The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience'.
(verb.) cause a stinging pain; 'The needle pricked his skin'.
录入:卢卡斯--From WordNet
解释:
(v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
(v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
(v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
(v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
(v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
(v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
(v.) The footprint of a hare.
(v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
(n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
(n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
(n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
(n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
(n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
(n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
(n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.
(n.) To render acid or pungent.
(n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
(n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
(n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
(n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(n.) To nick.
(v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
(v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
(v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
(v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.
录入:泽维尔
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Pierce (with a small hole), perforate, puncture.[2]. Spur, goad, incite, impel, urge, rouse, arouse, stimulate, drive.[3]. Sting, wound, pain, hurt.
v. n. Spur, ride, gallop, hasten.
n. [1]. Goad, point.[2]. Puncture.
贺拉斯校对
解释:
n. that which pricks or penetrates: a sharp point: the act or feeling of pricking: a puncture: a sting: remorse: (Shak.) a thorn prickle skewer point of time: (Spens.) point pitch.—v.t. to pierce with a prick: to erect any pointed thing: to fix by the point: to put on by puncturing: to mark or make by pricking: to incite: to deck out as with flowers or feathers: to pain.—v.i. to have a sensation of puncture: to stand erect: to ride with spurs:—pa.t. and pa.p. pricked.—adj. Prick′-eared having pointed ears.—ns. Prick′er that which pricks: a sharp-pointed instrument: light-horseman: a priming wire; Prick′ing; Prickle (prik′l) a little prick: a sharp point growing from the bark of a plant or from the skin of an animal.—v.t. to prick slightly.—v.i. (Spens.) to be prickly.—ns. Prick′le-back the stickle-back; Prick′liness; Prick′ling the act of piercing with a sharp point: (Shak.) the sensation of being pricked.—adj. prickly.—adj. Prick′ly full of prickles.—ns. Prick′ly-heat a severe form of the skin disease known as lichen with itching and stinging sensations; Prick′ly-pear a class of plants with clusters of prickles and fruit like the pear; Prick′-me-dain′ty (Scot.) an affected person.—adj. over-precise.—ns. Prick′-song (Shak.) a song set to music: music in parts; Prick′-spur a goad-spur; Prick′-the-gar′ter (cf. Fast-and-loose); Prick′-the-louse (Scot.) a tailor.
尤金伲亚整理
例句:
- The feeling was about what might be expected from the prick of a sharp needle at a white heat. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Holmes pricked up his ears. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I saw that word pricked him and kept on. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- He pricked up his ears at the word; he started erect at the gesture, and came, with head lovingly depressed, to receive the expected caress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The landlord pricked up his ears. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Round about, spiked, slashed snow-peaks pricked the heaven. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The thought pricked up all her sharp intelligence and presence of mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- It was not so much what she said; it was she herself who roused him, roused him with a small, vivid pricking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The pain from the pricking of the skin by the needles is exasperating; but when the explosions of the cartridges commence the animal becomes frantic. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
编辑:罗伊