sting
sting 英 [stɪŋ] 美 [stɪŋ]
n. 刺痛；讽刺，刺激；刺毛 vt. 刺；驱使；使…苦恼；使…疼痛 vi. 刺痛；被刺痛；感到剧痛
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- Sting most commonly refers to the wound inflicted by a bee or hornet, or to a kind of burning pain, like the brief sting when your doctor gives you a vaccine. A nasty remark can also sting.
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- n. 刺痛；讽刺，刺激；刺毛
- vt. 刺；驱使；使…苦恼；使…疼痛
- vi. 刺痛；被刺痛；感到剧痛
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1. Death, where is your sting?
死亡！ 你的刺在那里？
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2. There's always a sting in his words.
他说话总带刺儿。
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3. But what had totally pulled out the “sting” in our hearts happened one week ago.
而真正把我心中那根刺拔去的是发生在大概一周前的事情.
- sting (n.) Old English stincg, steng "act of stinging, puncture, thrust," from the root of sting (v.). Meaning "sharp-pointed organ capable of inflicting a painful puncture wound" is from late 14c. Meaning "carefully planned theft or robbery" is attested from 1930; sense of "police undercover entrapment" first attested 1975.
- sting (v.) Old English stingan "to stab, pierce, or prick with a point" (of weapons, insects, plants, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *stingan (source also of Old Norse stinga, Old High German stungen "to prick," Gothic us-stagg "to prick out," Old High German stanga, German stange "pole, perch," German stengel "stalk, stem"), perhaps from PIE *stengh-, nasalized form of root *stegh- "to stick, prick, sting."
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