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  • sting in the tail
    an unexpected, typically unpleasant or problematic end to something (尤指令人不快的)意外结局
英语四级真题
  • She still remembers the sting of her first experience skipping an assignment due to the high prices.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • Perhaps surprisingly, it is not all good news: there is a sting in the tail of the Obama effect
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
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英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung;
    "the sting of death""he felt the stinging of nettles"
    2. a mental pain or distress;
    "a pang of conscience"
    3. a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
    4. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
  • Verb
    1. cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
    "The sun burned his face"
    2. deliver a sting to;
    "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
    3. saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous;
    "They stuck me with the dinner bill""I was stung with a huge tax bill"
    4. cause a stinging pain;
    "The needle pricked his skin"
    5. cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging;
    "His remark stung her"
行业词典
  • 医学: 螫伤:植物或动物的毒液(生物毒素)进入体内或是接触这种毒物引起的伤害;也包括动、植物引进毒物到体内的器官造成的机械性损伤;螫针,刺毛:造成螫伤的动、植物器官;
    药学: 螫伤;