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nettle n.荨麻v.以荨麻刺；激怒 (1) 荨麻是一种普通的野生植物。(2) 嫩荨麻的叶子是一种非常好吃的蔬菜。(3) 显然，我的言语激怒了她。(4) 他粗鲁的问题使我很恼火。 A kid sister, a mosquito, an angry boyfriend, or a hot, muggy day: all of these are examples of things that might nettle a person. When you nettle someone, you act like a nettle; you annoy, bother, and generally tick off a person. The person who nettles you can be called nettlesome, which means that they're acting like a nettle. I find that the very sound of his voice nettles me. The sound alone makes me wish he would just shut up.

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英 ['netl] 美 ['netl] (1) Nettle is a kind of common wild plant.(2) When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable.(3) It was clear that my remarks nettled her.(4) I was rather nettled by his rude questions. If you know what a nettle is—that is, a barbed seed that gets stuck in your clothes and hair—then you'll have no trouble remembering the verb nettle: it means to annoy, bother, irritate, or bedevil. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]荨麻 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。2[VERB 动词]惹恼；冒犯 If you are nettled by something, you are annoyed or offended by it.   [be V-ed]  [V n]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。3[PHRASE 短语]迎难而上；知难而进；大胆抓棘手问题 If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.   [V inflects]  [mainly BRIT 主英]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。

英语单词	nettle
英美音标	英 ['netl] 美 ['netl]
中文释义	n.荨麻 v.以荨麻刺；激怒
英语例句	(1) Nettle is a kind of common wild plant. (2) When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable. (3) It was clear that my remarks nettled her. (4) I was rather nettled by his rude questions.
中文例句	(1) 荨麻是一种普通的野生植物。 (2) 嫩荨麻的叶子是一种非常好吃的蔬菜。 (3) 显然，我的言语激怒了她。 (4) 他粗鲁的问题使我很恼火。
vocabulary简明	If you know what a nettle is—that is, a barbed seed that gets stuck in your clothes and hair—then you'll have no trouble remembering the verb nettle: it means to annoy, bother, irritate, or bedevil.
vocabulary扩展	A kid sister, a mosquito, an angry boyfriend, or a hot, muggy day: all of these are examples of things that might nettle a person. When you nettle someone, you act like a nettle; you annoy, bother, and generally tick off a person. The person who nettles you can be called nettlesome, which means that they're acting like a nettle. I find that the very sound of his voice nettles me. The sound alone makes me wish he would just shut up.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]荨麻 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。 2 [VERB 动词]惹恼；冒犯 If you are nettled by something, you are annoyed or offended by it. [be V-ed] [V n] 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。 3 [PHRASE 短语]迎难而上；知难而进；大胆抓棘手问题 If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way. [V inflects] [mainly BRIT 主英] 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。

Nettle Nettled Wild Makes I Means Annoy Bother