0 If an insect, plant, or animal stings, it produces a small but painful injury, usually with a poison, by brushing against the skin or making a very small hole in the skin. -- （昆虫、植物或动物）叮，刺，蜇
I didn't see the nettles until I was stung by them. 我被荨麻刺到后才看见它们。
This type of disinfectant doesn't sting, even if you put it on a fresh cut. 这种消毒药水即使涂在新的伤口上也不会有灼痛感。
She knew he was right, but his words still stung. 她知道他是对的，但他的话仍旧伤害了她。
He was stung by her criticisms. 他被她的指责刺痛了。
She managed to give a stinging reply (= an angry answer intended to upset), before slamming down the phone. 她甩出一句尖刻的回答，然后啪的一声挂断了电话。
1 to charge someone a surprisingly large amount of money for something -- 向…索要惊人高价；敲诈
2 a sudden burning pain in your eyes, on your skin, etc., or the ability to cause such pain -- （眼睛、皮肤等的）灼痛，刺痛；蜇
3 a carefully planned and complicated plan which deceives people so that criminals can steal something -- 精心设计的偷窃行为
4 a very short animation (= film using moving drawings) used as a form of advertising for a brand (= product name), TV channel, etc. -- （用作产品或电视频道品牌宣传的）非常短小的动画
In prospect theory, loss delivers this exaggerated sting because losses are measured against the actor's reference point, not the actor's net asset position.
Like a diabolic adder it stings the life of many innocent people and is the burning topic of discussion.
In the case of criminal justice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement.
Nor is criterialism, properly or sympathetically understood, vulnerable to the semantic sting.
Excessive ventilation for which the jets of air issuing from the holes in the sting appreciably disturbed the cavity surface, had t o be avoided.
When the larva has been stung the female may withdraw her ovipositor, or wait with it in the cocoon.
I think we are entitled to wonder how desirable that transformation from a carrion-feasting hyena to a mosquito without a sting was.
Unless the female parasitoid prolonged its attack, host feeding wounds on adults could not be differentiated from host stinging alone.
