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。
• One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles;
  一天，他看见村里有许多人正忙着拔除荨麻。
• 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。
• The nettles stung their legs.
  荨麻扎了他们的腿。
• He swished off the tops of the nettles with his cane.
  他用杖抽断了麻的顶部。
• It was excellent news for foxes, which we used to chase from the lower woodlands to the brick-walled kitchen garden, which was so full of nettles and wild artichokes that the hounds could never force their prey out.
  对狐狸来说，这再好不过，过去我们常常追赶狐狸，从低矮的树林一直追到有砖墙的厨房花园，里面满是荨麻和野生洋蓟，猎犬怎么都无法把它们的猎物逼出来。
• 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。
• How disturbing it was to discover that many of these "seeds" were extremely negative thoughts destined to grow patches of thorny thistles and stinging nettles in our daily lives!
  当发现大多数的“思之种子”都是很负面的思想，注定要在我们的日常生活中长成一丛丛带刺的野蓟、荨麻的时候，这是多么让人烦恼啊！
• 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。
• Along with perch and pike from nearby lakes, he ate wild plants like nettles, berries and tubers, as well as mice and rats.
  除了吃附近湖里养的鲈鱼和梭鱼外，他还吃野生植物，例如荨麻、浆果和一些植物的块茎，有时候甚至还吃老鼠和兔子。