nettled
v. 拿荨麻打,拿荨麻刺(nettle的过去式与过去分词形式)
Nettles are wild plants which have leaves covered with fine hairs that sting you when you touch them.
The nettles stung their legs.
荨麻扎了他们的腿。
...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。
If you are nettled by something, you are annoyed or offended by it.
He was nettled by her manner...
她的举止惹恼了他。
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。
If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
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。
1. aroused to impatience or anger;
My remarks clearly nettled her.
我的话显然惹恼了她。
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。
He had been growing nettled before, but now he pulled himself together.
他刚才有些来火, 但现在又恢复了常态.
He was nettled by her manner.
她的举止惹恼了他。
Her rude remarks about my clothes rather nettled me.
她无礼评论我的衣服,使我非常气恼.