1.[t][i]~ (sb/sth)刺;蜇;叮to touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain
I was stung on the arm by a wasp.我的胳膊给黄蜂蜇了一下。
Be careful of the nettles─they sting!小心给荨麻扎着,荨麻有刺!
2.[i][t](使)感觉刺痛,感觉灼痛to feel, or to make sb feel, a sharp pain in a part of their body
I put some antiseptic on the cut and it stung for a moment.我在割破的地方抹了点抗菌剂,一时间十分刺痛。
My eyes were stinging from the smoke.烟熏得我眼睛疼。
Tears stung her eyes.她流泪流得眼睛疼。
3.[t]激怒;使不安to make sb feel angry or upset
He was stung by their criticism.他们的批评使他心烦意乱。
They launched a stinging attack on the government.他们对政府进行了猛烈的抨击。
Their cruel remarks stung her into action.他们伤人的话激怒了她,使她采取了行动。
He was stung into answering in his defence.他被激怒了,不得不作出回应为自己辩护。
4.[t][oftpass](informal)~ sb (for sth)对(某人)敲竹杠;敲诈;欺诈to charge sb more money than they expected; to charge sb who did not expect to pay
I got stung for a £100 meal.我挨宰了,一顿饭吃了 100 英镑。
1.[c](昆虫的)螫针,刺;(植物的)刺,刺毛the sharp pointed part of an insect or creature that can go into the skin leaving a small, painful and sometimes poisonous wound
the sting of a bee蜜蜂的螫针
The scorpion has a sting in its tail.蝎子尾巴上有螫针。
2.[c]刺伤;蜇伤;叮伤a wound that is made when an insect, a creature or a plant stings you
A wasp or bee sting is painful but not necessarily serious.被黄蜂或蜜蜂蜇一下疼是疼,但未必碍事。
3.[c][u](身体或心灵的)剧痛,痛苦any sharp pain in your body or mind
the sting of salt in a wound伤口上撒盐引起的剧痛
He smiled at her, trying to take the sting out of his words(= trying to make the situation less painful or difficult) .他冲她微微一笑,想使他的话不至于刺痛她。
4.[c](警察为抓捕罪犯而设的)圈套a clever secret plan by the police to catch criminals
a sting operation to catch heroin dealers in Detroit在底特律设圈套抓捕海洛因贩子的行动
5.[c](罪犯诈骗钱财的)骗局,诡计a clever plan by criminals to cheat people out of a lot of money
Here the weather may be clear and sunny. But stinging eyes and dry coughs show that harmful chemicals fill the air.
这里天气晴朗阳光灿烂,但是人们感到眼睛刺痛,出现干咳嗽。
Something in her little soul was old enough and woman enough to feel the irresistible, stinging joy of being needed.
在她幼小的心灵里,有一些非常成熟,非常女性化的东西使她感到被需要的不可抗拒的刺痛的快乐。
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! " Jack replied, looking down to see a bee busy stinging him on the little finger.
杰克回答说:“啊!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”他低头一看,发现小拇指上有只小蜜蜂正蛰得欢。
He looks at her for a long moment. Then he turns off the lamp and closes his stinging eyes to the dark.
他久久凝望着她。然后熄灭了灯,黑暗中他闭起双眼,感觉一阵刺痛。
So from the ancient bridge we viewed the train that hurried toward us along the other tract- kept moving, like the first, by stinging whips.
桥上我们了望那行列,他们正在另一边向着我们走来,同样地为鞭子所驱赶着。
The stinging hairs, or suckers, of these brightly colored, fleshy caterpillars contain mildly venomous toxins used for defense purposes.
这种肥嘟嘟的毛虫身上颜色艳丽的毛发,或称为吸管中含有轻度毒性的毒素,以此御敌。
stems sparsely pubescent with a few stinging hairs at least when old.
茎疏生短柔毛具一些蛰毛至少老时。
The result is not just a grim image of China, but a stinging work of cultural self-criticism.
结果不仅仅是反映中国发展不好的一面,同时也是痛苦的自我批评。
So it startled everyone when the IMF's chief economist came off the ropes to land some stinging criticisms of his own.
所以,当其首席经济学家离开围栏并对指向他自己的尖锐批评做出反击时,大家颇感震惊。
And when Marwood made the jump, he was covered with wasps stinging him in the face and eyes.
当玛沃德跳过去的时候,他立刻就被黄蜂包围了黄蜂叮咬他的脸跟眼睛。
stinging The act of introducing venom into the flesh of a victim by means of a venom apparatus; envenomation .
螫入经由一个毒液器官引导毒液进入受害者肉内的行为;毒液螫入。
It was not the blob of dead jellyfish, but rather pieces of its stinging tentacles that stung the waders, scientists said.
科学家说,蜇人的凶器并不是死水母的小圆“帽”,而是它的触角残肢。
I raced back to my home tears stinging my eyes and blurring my vision.
我跑回家,泪水模糊了我的双眼。
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, delivered a stinging speech on the last day of his trial for embezzling oil.
曾经的俄罗斯首富,米卡耶•克多可夫斯基,曾在他贪污石油公款的审判的前一天作过一场激烈的演讲。
But stinging eyes and dry coughs show that harmful chemicals fill the air.
但是人们眼睛刺痛和干咳,说明空气里充满了有害的化学物质。
Dirty air or air-borne garbage causes stinging eyes and running nose. Pollutants are destructive.
污染的空气或空气中含有的废物引起眼睛刺痛,流鼻涕。
Then he turns off the lamp and closes his stinging eyes to the dark.
然后他关灯,对着黑暗闭上他刺痛的眼睛。
Insects buzzed around her, lazy dragonflies and glistening green wasps and stinging midges almost too small to see.
昆虫围绕着她嗡嗡而叫,那些懒蜻蜓、发亮的绿蜂还有咬人的蚊蚋小得几乎看不见。
The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
大范围失明造成了随处可见的混乱和饥荒,同时神秘的刺人三脚妖造成的威胁也更在不断加剧。
The stem fibers are used to make ropes. The stinging hairs may be very irritating.
茎纤维用来做绳。蛰毛可能是非常刺激的。
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