Pricking
['prɪkɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick
(n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
(n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
(n.) Same as Nicking.
(n.) A sensation of being pricked.
(n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
(n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
編輯:卡罗尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was not so much what she said; it was she herself who roused him, roused him with a small, vivid pricking. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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