| 释义 |
stingless, a.|ˈstɪŋlɪs|
[f. sting n.2 + -less.]
Having no sting. lit. and fig.
1554T. Martin Marr. Priests xiv. Mm ij b, [They] were nowe able..to treade vnder fote the head of their lustes, as of a stingles serpent. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. v. i. 35. 1604 Webster Marston's Malcontent Induct. A 3 b, There are a sort of discontented creatures that beare a stinglesse enuie to great ones. 1618Chapman Hesiod's Georg. i. 15 The slothfull man is like the sting-lesse Drone. 1724Derham in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 55 These sting-less Male Wasps. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iii. (1873) 59 In Australia the imported hive-bee is rapidly exterminating the small, stingless native bee. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 52 So playful and stingless is his humour. |