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

• 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。
• Pay Back in one's own coin Some of them were on nettles till they learned your name was Dickson.
  他们中间，有一部分人，在知道你的大名是迪克逊之前一直坐立不安。
• 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。”
• 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。
• The Species and the Distribution of Officinal Nettles in Sichuan Province
  四川药用荨麻的种类与分布
• 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；
• Watch out for those stinging nettles!
  当心那些刺人的荨麻！
• 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。