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

• 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。
• 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 nettles stung their legs.
  荨麻扎了他们的腿。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Species and the Distribution of Officinal Nettles in Sichuan Province
  四川药用荨麻的种类与分布
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Watch out for those stinging nettles!
  当心那些刺人的荨麻！