Thorny
['θɔːnɪ] or ['θɔrni]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) bristling with perplexities; 'the thorny question of states' rights' .
整理:塞丽娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
(superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
整理:皮尔斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Spiny, spinose, spinous, prickly, briery.[2]. Pricking, sharp, pointed.[3]. Troublesome, vexatious, annoying, harassing, perplexing.
赫克托整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Spiny, prickly, harassing, troublesome
校對:罗杰
例句/造句/用法:
- This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- All trees are protected by nature; some are protected from bugs eating their leaves, by other bugs eating up these bugs; other trees are protected by having a thorny or bristly bark. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the path of early reasoners is beset by thorny entanglements, and he will not proceed a step without first clearing the ground. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Come, Jo, don't be thorny. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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