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

• At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard;
  就在那时我才弄清楚，这一片长满荨麻的荒凉之地正是乡村的教堂墓地；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• A vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. This bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard.
  那是一片荒凉辽阔、寸草不生的田野。那蔓草丛生的凄凉地方是教堂公墓。
• 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。
• The other plants turned to nettles and weeds, and died.
  其他的植物都变成了荆棘丛莽，或者枯死了。
• He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, thistles, and very irascible brambles.
  他得和灌木、荨麻、出楂、野蔷薇、飞廉和一触即怒的黑莓打交道。
• 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。
• 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。