nettle
nettle 英 [ˈnetl] 美 [ˈnɛtl]
vt. 刺激；惹恼；用荨麻刺 n. 荨麻 adj. 荨麻科的
进行时:nettling 过去式:nettled 过去分词:nettled 第三人称单数:nettles 名词复数:nettles
- If you know what a nettle is—it's a plant with stinging hairs—then you'll have no trouble remembering the verb nettle: it means to annoy, bother, irritate, or bedevil.
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- vt. 刺激；惹恼；用荨麻刺
- n. 荨麻
- adj. 荨麻科的
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1. An unworthy thought can no more germinate in it, than a nettle on a glacier.
邪恶的思想已不能再在这心里滋长，正如荨麻不能生在冰山上。
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2. "I drink nettle and cleaver tea, sometimes with some fresh lemon verbena when I find it," he says.
早上的茶是用荨麻和八仙草泡的。 有时候碰到新鲜的柠檬马鞭草，就更好了。
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3. Along with being delicious, nettle tea is said to help several ailments including eczema, asthma, hay fever and muscle aches and pains.
饮一杯美味的荨麻茶据说对多种疾病具有帮助作用。 如：湿疹、哮喘、花粉病（枯草热）和肌肉酸疼。
- nettle (n.) stinging plant, Old English netele, from Proto-Germanic *natilon (source also of Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele, Dutch netel, German Nessel, Danish nædlæ "nettle"), diminutive of *naton, perhaps from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie." "[N]ettles or plants of closely related genera such as hemp were used as a source of fiber" [Watkins].
- nettle (v.) c. 1400, "to beat with nettles," from nettle (n.). Figurative sense of "irritate, provoke" is from 1560s. Related: Nettled; nettling.
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