| 单词 | sting |
| 释义 | sting (once / 464 pages) vn Sting most commonly refers to the wound inflicted by a bee or hornet, or to a kind of burning pain, like the brief sting when your doctor gives you a vaccine. A nasty remark can also sting. "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee!" was Muhammad Ali's famous taunt to other fighters. But insects and boxers aren't the only ones who can sting. When someone says something that's both mean and true, it can sting. Such things are often referred to as stinging remarks. But if you're thinking crime, then a sting is a con-job that takes planning to pull off. When the cops spend months creating a fake crime-ring in order to catch criminals in the act, it's referred to a "sting operation." WORD FAMILYsting: stinged, stinger, stinging, stingless, stings+/stinger: stingers/stinging: stingingly, stingings USAGE EXAMPLESSome people experience dryness, stinging, itching and burning. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) That only worsened the sting of the game’s final two minutes. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) You'd expect the British embassy to choose something more boring, like Sting... BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1v deliver a sting to A bee stung my arm yesterday Syn|Hyper bite, prick pierce make a hole into 2v cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort Syn|Hypo|Hyper bite, burn burn feel hot or painful nettle, urticate sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation ache, hurt, smart be the source of pain 3v cause a stinging pain Syn|Hypo|Hyper prick, twinge prick, prickle cause a prickling sensation ache, hurt, suffer feel physical pain 4v cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging His remark stung her Hyper bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound hurt the feelings of 5v saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous I was stung with a huge tax bill Syn|Hyper stick force, thrust impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably 6n a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung the sting of death Syn|Hyper stinging hurting, pain a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder 7n a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin Syn|Hypo|Hyper bite, insect bite bee sting a sting inflicted by a bee flea bitesting inflicted by a flea mosquito bitea sting inflicted by a mosquito harm, hurt, injury, trauma any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. 8n a mental pain or distress Syn|Hyper pang hurting, pain a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder 9n a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle sting operation a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) cheat, rig, swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
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