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 pushed her in the nettles.
  我把她推进了荨麻丛。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• Fields covered with stinging nettles.
  长满了带刺的荨麻的田野。
• 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。
• 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。
• Objective: To study the resource of officinal nettles in Sichuan.
  目的：弄清四川药用荨麻的资源情况。
• 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；