sting

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解释

n. 刺痛；讽刺，刺激；刺毛
vt. 刺；驱使；使…苦恼；使…疼痛
vi. 刺痛；被刺痛；感到剧痛
n. (Sting)人名；(英)斯廷；(德)施廷

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中文词源

sting 刺，叮，蜇，激怒

来自古英语 stingan,刺，插，戳，叮，来自 Proto-Germanic*stingan,刺，插，来自 PIE*stengh, 鼻音化自*stegh,刺，插，词源同 stake,stick,instinct.引申诸相关词义。

英文词源

sting: sting: [OE] Sting comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *stengg-, which also produced Swedish stinga and Danish stinge. This denoted ‘pierce with something sharp’ (‘He with a spear stung the proud Viking’, Battle of Maldon 993), a meaning which was not ousted in English by the more specialized application to insects until the late 15th century. Stingy [17] may be based on stinge ‘act of stinging’, a dialectal noun derived from Old English stingan ‘sting’; an underlying sense ‘having a sting, sharp’ is revealed in the dialectal sense ‘bad-tempered’.
sting (v.): Old English stingan "to stab, pierce, or prick with a point" (of weapons, insects, plants, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *stingan (cognates: Old Norse stinga, Old High German stungen "to prick," Gothic us-stagg "to prick out," Old High German stanga, German stange "pole, perch," German stengel "stalk, stem"), perhaps from PIE *stengh-, nasalized form of root *stegh- "to prick, sting" (cognates: Old English stagga "stag," Greek stokhos "pointed stake").

Specialized to insects late 15c. Intransitive sense "be sharply painful" is from 1848. Slang meaning "to cheat, swindle" is from 1812. Old English past tense stang, past participle stungen; the past tense later leveled to stung.
sting (n.): Old English stincg, steng "act of stinging, puncture, thrust," from the root of sting (v.). Meaning "sharp-pointed organ capable of inflicting a painful puncture wound" is from late 14c. Meaning "carefully planned theft or robbery" is attested from 1930; sense of "police undercover entrapment" first attested 1975.

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例句和用法

1. The police ran a sting operation to crack down on illegal guns.: 警方展开诱捕行动以严打非法枪支。

2. This won't hurt — you will just feel a little sting.: 这不痛——你只会感觉到像被轻轻叮了一下。

3. Remove the bee sting with tweezers.: 用镊子拔掉蜜蜂的螫刺。

4. Sprays can sting sensitive skin.: 这些喷剂会使敏感肌肤感到刺痛。

5. The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.: 蝎子有可以致命的螫针.