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

• The nettles stung their legs.
  荨麻扎了他们的腿。
• Nettles are surprisingly good — much like spinach but with a sweetish taste.
  没想到荨麻这么好吃——很像菠菜，但带了点甜味。
• 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。
• And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
  以东的宫殿要长荆棘，保障要长蒺藜和刺草。要作野狗的住处，鸵鸟的居所。
• 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。
• Knaves and nettles are akin; stroak, em kindly, yet they, ll sting.
  无赖和荨麻，你轻摸也要被扎。
• Love is a fair garden, and marriage a field of nettles.
  爱情是欢乐之园，婚姻是苦恼之地。
• 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。
• The Species and the Distribution of Officinal Nettles in Sichuan Province
  四川药用荨麻的种类与分布
• 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。