sting
美 [stɪŋ] 
英 [stɪŋ]
- v.刺；蜇；叮；（使）感觉刺痛
- n.刺；刺伤；蜇伤；刺毛
- 网络斯汀；史汀；死叮
词形变化
过去式：stung 第三人称单数：stings 现在分词：stinging 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t][i] ~ (sb/sth) 刺；蜇；叮to touch your skin or make a very small hole in it so that you feel a sharp pain |
| I was stung on the arm by a wasp. 我的胳膊给黄蜂蜇了一下。 |
| Be careful of the nettles─they sting! 小心给荨麻扎着，荨麻有刺！ |
2. | [i][t] （使）感觉刺痛，感觉灼痛to feel, or to make sb feel, a sharp pain in a part of their body |
| I put some antiseptic on the cut and it stung for a moment. 我在割破的地方抹了点抗菌剂，一时间十分刺痛。 |
| My eyes were stinging from the smoke. 烟熏得我眼睛疼。 |
| Tears stung her eyes. 她流泪流得眼睛疼。 |
3. | [t] 激怒；使不安to make sb feel angry or upset |
| He was stung by their criticism. 他们的批评使他心烦意乱。 |
| They launched a stinging attack on the government. 他们对政府进行了猛烈的抨击。 |
| Their cruel remarks stung her into action. 他们伤人的话激怒了她，使她采取了行动。 |
| He was stung into answering in his defence. 他被激怒了，不得不作出回应为自己辩护。 |
4. | [t][oftpass]
~ sb (for sth) 对（某人）敲竹杠；敲诈；欺诈to charge sb more money than they expected; to charge sb who did not expect to pay |
| I got stung for a £100 meal. 我挨宰了，一顿饭吃了 100 英镑。 |
1. | [c] （昆虫的）螫针，刺；（植物的）刺，刺毛the sharp pointed part of an insect or creature that can go into the skin leaving a small, painful and sometimes poisonous wound |
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| The scorpion has a sting in its tail. 蝎子尾巴上有螫针。 |
2. | [c] 刺伤；蜇伤；叮伤a wound that is made when an insect, a creature or a plant stings you |
| A wasp or bee sting is painful but not necessarily serious. 被黄蜂或蜜蜂蜇一下疼是疼，但未必碍事。 |
3. | [c][u] （身体或心灵的）剧痛，痛苦any sharp pain in your body or mind |
| the sting of salt in a wound 伤口上撒盐引起的剧痛 |
| He smiled at her, trying to take the sting out of his words(= trying to make the situation less painful or difficult) . 他冲她微微一笑，想使他的话不至于刺痛她。 |
4. | [c] （警察为抓捕罪犯而设的）圈套a clever secret plan by the police to catch criminals |
| a sting operation to catch heroin dealers in Detroit 在底特律设圈套抓捕海洛因贩子的行动 |
5. | [c] （罪犯诈骗钱财的）骗局，诡计a clever plan by criminals to cheat people out of a lot of money |
习惯用语
a sting in the tail
煞风景的结局an unpleasant feature that comes at the end of a story, an event, etc. and spoils it
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"framing comments . . . that would be sure to sting and yet leave no opening for repartee" (H. G. Wells).
“一定会刺伤人但又使反驳的机会消失的框架评论”（H.G。威尔斯）。
If I receive bad news or someone makes a particularly hurtful remark, I'm definitely going to feel the sting of the poisoned covered spear.
如果收到坏消息或是听到别人一些伤害性的言语，我立刻会有种被毒矛刺中的痛感。
An adult might be very ill from the sting, but a baby could easily die from the poison.
让蝎子蜇了，大人会大病一场，小孩很容易中毒身亡。
Another time his wife is dispatched to a dinner party alone whilst he slips out to see "The Sting" .
另一次，他把妻子送去了一个晚宴，而自己则溜了出去看电影“骗中骗”（TheSting）。
Sting said he was delighted to be back on Concorde, having been a regular customer for 20 years.
斯汀表示他将非常乐意乘坐协和飞机返回伦敦，因为乘坐协和飞机是他20年来养成的习惯。
And the little gnats of men sting his memory when they get their very bread and butter from the technical application of his ideas.
那些人类中渺小的蚊蚋，吞食着从技术上应用他的思想而得来的黄油面包，却叮咬着他死后的名声。
The previous episode had turned his body into a time bomb waiting for the next sting to trigger an explosion.
上一次的事件已经把他的身体变成了一枚定时炸弹，一旦再一次被蜇，就会全身爆发。
How much did they sting you for?
他们骗了你多少钱？
Then one of them stooped down to stroke it, but the Serpent raised its head and put out its fangs and was about to sting the child to death.
其中一个弯下腰打它，但是这只蛇抬起头，露出牙齿要把男孩咬死。
However, what he didn't know was that the first sting had turned his body into a time bomb waiting for the next to set off an explosion.
不过他不知道的是，这第一次蜂蛰已经让他的身体变成了一颗定时炸弹，随时等待下一次起爆。
The official of his follower he ars he belongs tor at, collect a few gold, c a sting gives him gift of hold a birthday party into a mice.
他属下的官员听说他属鼠，便凑了一些黄金，铸成一只老鼠送给他做寿礼。
If they happened to crawl under my dress or I sat on them accidentally they would punish me with a sting that made me shriek with pain.
如果他们恰巧爬到我裙子底下，或我正好坐在他们上面时他们就会用那能疼得让我尖叫的刺痛来惩罚我。
Sven's a nitwit. He got caught playing away and then embarrassed himself in a tabloid sting. You would have to be a fool to be so careless.
斯文（埃里克森）是个大白痴，他打客场的时候总会被媒体捕捉到什么丑事，真没见过哪个人笨到如此粗心的地步。
Had it been here the reader could have seen with what consummate generosity Bankim Babu had taken the sting out of that unfortunate episode.
假如这封信还在的话，那么读者就可以发现，班吉姆先生在拔掉这段不幸插曲的刺时显得多么宽宏大量。
Smart agency owners hang up on clients who mention sex during the booking process, because such calls might be part of a police sting.
精明的陪护中介老板还会拒绝在预约过程中提到性服务的客人，因为这可能是警方的陷阱。
Scorpion replies, "it would not be in my interest to sting you, since, as I'll be on your back, we both would drown. "
蝎子说：“扎你的话对我没好处，因为我在你背上，这样我们都会淹死。”
Suddenly, three boys my age rode up on Sting-Ray bicycles, skidding to a stop in front of me with a triple shriek of rubber.
突然，三个男孩，跟我同年，骑着刺鳐牌自行车，在一阵刹车皮的尖叫声中冲到我面前停下来了。
But the sting from the nettle appeared to be short-lived as the animal was soon seen with the rest of the troop happily playing.
但是荨麻带来的刺痛感看起来很短暂，因为有人不久后就看见小猴儿和其他猴子玩得很开心。
If you feel up to it, do your best Mohammed Ali impression: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" "I AM the GREATEST! "
如果你觉得可以做得来，就把自己想象成拳王阿里那样：“像蝴蝶的飞舞，蜜蜂的刺”，“我是最棒的！”
He had thought that the bee sting had opened only to his eyes the extent of her vulnerability, her lovely old-fashioned faintingness.
他想过那蜜蜂的一蛰使得他睁大了眼睛看到了她身体脆弱的程度，她可爱的不以为然的昏厥。
The sting of the catapult bullet had worn off.
弹弓弹打的痛楚，已经消退了。
I am going to hunt words that have not lost their sting, and it may be I shall have to go back to gentility to find them.
我将要狩猎没有遗失他们的刺字，而且它可能是我将必须回去高贵找他们。
Born Gordon Matthew Sumner , Sting grew up in a rough neighborhood in northern England.
本名高登.马修.桑纳的史汀，在英格兰北部一个破落的社区长大。
Explosions like this would devastate life on Earth. For Jupiter, they were no more than a bee sting.
像这样的爆炸能摧毁地球上的生物，但对木星来说只不过像被蜜蜂螫了一下而已。
Earlier this week , Southall was getting off a Jet Ski in the ocean when he felt " a small bee- like sting " on his arm .
本周早些时候，索撒尔从海上的水上摩托艇下来后，突然觉得一只胳膊“像被蜜蜂蜇了一下”。
Though the words may sting, a real friend tells the truth; though flattery has no teeth, it can devour your bones.
真正的朋友应该说真话，不管话多么尖锐；阿谀奉承没有牙齿，却能吃掉人的骨头。
Do not think I shall say a word of sting or bitterness.
不要以为我会对你说一个刻薄的字，说一句愤恨的话。
Next time you touch a nettle grasp it as tightly as you can. Then it won't sting you at all.
下次你碰它的时候尽可能大力点，这样它就一点都不会刺伤你。
Idaho Senator Larry Craig will have to wait as a judge considers his request to withdraw a guilty plea in an airport sex sting.
爱达荷州参议员拉里•克雷格不得不等待法官考虑他撤回在机场性骚扰事件中所认罪责的诉讼请求。
Submerging herself into water that burned skin to the touch, she let out a sigh, letting the sting of the water drown her senses.
自己说成水淹没烧伤的皮肤的触感，她叹了口气让出，让水淹没刺痛了她的感官。
What Swanson didn't know was that it takes an initial sting to make an allergy-prone person become sensitive.
但他不知道的是，第一次叮咬能让有过敏倾向的人变得极其敏感。
They were such fun I didn't care if they might be hustlers who had been complicit in a tea ceremony sting.
他们是如此的有趣，以至于我已经不在乎他们是否是茶道仪式骗局的掮客。
The bomb was a fake and had been provided to Mohamud as part of a long-term sting by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
幸好提供给马哈茂德的汽车炸弹是假的，是联邦调查局以及其它执法机构长时间运作设下的圈套。
This truly dramatic move seems designed to take some of the sting out of the crisis and to show that the Murdoch empire is punishing itself.
这个戏剧性的举动似乎是为了让自己摆脱危机，展示默多克王国在对自己进行惩罚。
Slovakian police sent in an undercover officer posing as the victim in a sting operation and caught the suspected cannibal.
随后，斯洛伐克警方派遣卧底假扮成应征者，一举逮捕了这名食人嫌犯。
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has lost his latest attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in a Minneapolis airport men's room sex sting.
爱达荷州参议员拉里克雷格试图申请撤销对其在明尼科波利斯机场男洗手间的不检点行为的定罪终告失败。
Even through the sting of rejection, I'd like to think I knew it was funny.
我并不认为这是一次难受之旅，我更愿意相信非常令人受用。
The next season they had to avenge the sting of that Finals loss.
接下来的那个赛季，他们需要报总决赛输给对手的一箭之仇；
How do we protect ourselves from the venomous sting of such idle gossip? The best way is to just tell the truth.
我们如何保护我们自己免于这些人们在空闲时无聊的但又无比狠毒的八卦呢？最好的方法便是只说事实。
By means of its sting, it injects this poison directly into our bloodstream when it feels threatened.
在感觉遇到威胁时，黄蜂把这根毒刺直接刺入我们的血管。
The worst that has happened thus far to the children is the occasional bee sting, she says.
她说，到目前为止，最糟糕的情形也就是孩子们偶尔会被刺痛一下。
