n.
- 刺，棘[C]
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No rose without a
thorn.
玫瑰多刺。（有快樂就有痛苦）
- 有刺植物[U][C]
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Thorns sprang up and choked the wheat.
荊棘叢生，把小麥都蓋沒了。
- 惱人的事（或人）[C]
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The biggest
thorn in the Prime Minister's side is inflation.
最使首相苦惱的問題是通貨膨脹。
片語
a thorn in sb.'s flesh/side
- 某人的眼中釘
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He was
a thorn in the police's flesh.
他是警方的眼中釘。
be/sit on thorns
- 如坐針氈；焦慮不安
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He was then
sitting on thorns and waiting for you.
他當時如坐針氈，焦急地等待著你。
衍生
a.
thorny
n. [U]
thorniness
辨析
n.
- a stiff, sharp-pointed woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.
- a thorny bush, shrub, or tree, especially a hawthorn.
- an Old English and Icelandic runic letter, þ or Þ, representing the dental fricatives
/ð/
and
/θ/
, eventually superseded by the digraph th.
Phrase
- a thorn in someone's side
(or flesh)
a source of continual annoyance or trouble.
Derivative
- thorned adj.
- thornless adj.
Etymology
OE, of Gmc origin; the OE letter was named from the word of which it was the first letter.
