Sting

(noun.) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.

(noun.) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; 'the sting of death'; 'he felt the stinging of nettles'.

(verb.) deliver a sting to; 'A bee stung my arm yesterday'.

(verb.) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; 'His remark stung her'.

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• Dorothea was aware of the sting, but it did not hurt her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had caught her in my arms, and the sting and torment of my remorse had closed them round her like a vice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I'll paint all this and--Does that sting? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But to Dorothea's feeling his words had a peculiar sting. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It will sting--it will taste bitter, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She was stung, as if this were an insult. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I don't know what you mean by wrong, Cadwallader, said Sir James, still feeling a little stung, and turning round in his chair towards the Rector. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To be stung by irony it is not necessary to understand it, and the angry streaks on Trenor's face might have been raised by an actual lash. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• If she still needs me, she's determined not to let me see it, he thought, stung by her manner. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He actually thought I was stung with a kind of jealous pain similar to his own! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I have health, wealth, and youth; but I feel the stings of the rod all the same. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Again he thought, how during this long month, he had avoided Perdita, flying from her as from the stings of his own conscience. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Ah me, I fear the sharpness of their stings. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• These insects were as large as partridges: I took out their stings, found them an inch and a half long, and as sharp as needles. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Only once she cried aloud, at the stinging thought of the faithlessness which gave birth to that abasing falsehood. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And then the stinging fear of surviving either of you, is not here--one death will clasp us undivided. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I leaned forward in the dark to kiss her and there was a sharp stinging flash. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Even her hard words, reproachful as they were, were complimentary--the groans of a person stinging under defeat. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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