thorn

thorn[θɔ:n]

• n.
  • 刺，棘
  • 【植物】山楂属(Crataegus)植物；荆棘，蒺藜；荆棘树木
  • 【动物学】棘，壳针
  • 古代英文字母的P (相当于罗马字母 th)
  • 使人生气(或苦恼)的人(或事)
• vt.
  • 用刺戳
  • 使生气，使苦恼
• 短语:
  • a thorn in one's side (或flesh) 不断使人生气(或苦恼)的人(或事)，不断使某人烦恼的根源；令某人伤脑筋的事情；某人的眼中钉(或肉中刺)
  • sit(或 be) on(或upon)thorns 如坐针毡，坐卧不宁，焦虑不安

Thorn[tɔ:rn]

• [德语] = Torun

• crossbenches
• infesting
• gripping
• look someone in the face
• creamies
• ricinolein
• liven
• at a push
• tear someone off a strip（或tear a strip off someone）
• pentathletes
• sticky foam
• self-sowed
• flip-floppeds
• verbalizing
• governors-general
• man of distinction
• cartoonish
• bill of peace
• godmother
• empty nesters
• battik
• aerial car
• binomial surd
• erosing
• bring someone down a a peg or two
• stepper motor
• malleolus
• first cousin twice removed
• spectroscopy
• bridgelike
• fucoid
• islets of Lang er hans
• econuts
• ergo propter hoc
• slimicides
• undervaluation
• acromelalgia
• get-acquainted
• amp.
• fill in time
• Hohhot
• far-distant
• chalcoalumite
• dioxide
• antenna mine
• derivative polarography
• disconformity
• breech delivery
• tritenesses
• kerne
• grating spacing
• dwarf crested iris
• lunate
• potato blights
• glass cloth
• quettas
• measure one's strength with
• monochromate
• pipe down
• embroider in
• wash sth ↔ off
• bimanually
• superciliary
• in this / that regard
• egomaniacs
• toxicophidia
• Eliot
• doggery
• highbush
• p.o.s.
• stop the show
• Swedish masseur
• potheads
• be ringing off the hook
• rhodonites
• back of a book
• beating wind
• whate'er
• demurring
• piroplasmid
• tea-garden
• two / three etc deep
• computatively
• ricinism
• sociosexual
• read untrue
• discoasters
• apologies
• cupholders
• a streak of luck
• versants
• foresaw
• homoeroticism
• the other world
• Aranda
• re-coil
• ridge cap
• strike fear in
• sailor trousers
• matched-metal molding