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

• Well, his mother explained to ours about a month after they'd got married," he's made his bed and he can lie on it, even though it turns out to be a bed of nettles. "
  “唉，”他们结婚大约一个月后他妈妈对咱妈妈说，“他该自作自受，即使是一盘苦果他也该咽下去。”
• 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。
• I stung myself on some nettles as I was sitting down.
  我坐下的时候被一些荨麻刺痛了。
• They plucked the long grass and nettles from the tombs, thinned the poor shrubs and roots.
  他们拔除了坟墓上的茂草和荨麻，砍断矮树和根株。
• 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。
• Fields covered with stinging nettles.
  长满了带刺的荨麻的田野。
• 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。
• I pushed her in the nettles.
  我把她推进了荨麻丛。
• Love is fair garden and marriage a field of nettles.
  爱情是美丽的花园，结婚是长荨麻的田野。
• This bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard.
  那蔓草丛生的凄凉地方是教堂公墓。