Sting
[stɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
(noun.) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; 'the sting of death'; 'he felt the stinging of nettles'.
(verb.) deliver a sting to; 'A bee stung my arm yesterday'.
(verb.) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; 'His remark stung her'.
格温多林手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
(v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
(v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
(v. t.) A goad; incitement.
(v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
(v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
(v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
錄入:内德
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Prick, wound, hurt.[2]. Afflict, pain, cut to the quick, go to one's heart.
希尔达整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to stick anything sharp into to pain acutely.—v.i. to have a sting: to give pain:—pa.t. and pa.p. stung.—n. the sharp-pointed weapon of some animals: the thrust of a sting into the flesh: anything that causes acute pain: any stimulus or impulse: the point in the last verse of an epigram.—n. Sting′er one who or that which stings.—adv. Sting′ingly with stinging.—adj. Sting′less having no sting.—n. Sting′-ray a genus of cartilaginous fishes of the order of Rays and family Trygonid the long tail bearing dorsally a long bi-serrated spine capable of giving an ugly wound.
卡斯特罗校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness. For a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow and remorse from over-confidence in men.
編輯:曼纽尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Dorothea was aware of the sting, but it did not hurt her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I had caught her in my arms, and the sting and torment of my remorse had closed them round her like a vice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I'll paint all this and--Does that sting? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But to Dorothea's feeling his words had a peculiar sting. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It will sting--it will taste bitter, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She was stung, as if this were an insult. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I don't know what you mean by wrong, Cadwallader, said Sir James, still feeling a little stung, and turning round in his chair towards the Rector. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- If she still needs me, she's determined not to let me see it, he thought, stung by her manner. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He actually thought I was stung with a kind of jealous pain similar to his own! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Again he thought, how during this long month, he had avoided Perdita, flying from her as from the stings of his own conscience. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Ah me, I fear the sharpness of their stings. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And then the stinging fear of surviving either of you, is not here--one death will clasp us undivided. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I leaned forward in the dark to kiss her and there was a sharp stinging flash. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Even her hard words, reproachful as they were, were complimentary--the groans of a person stinging under defeat. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
錄入:凯文