Prick

(noun.) the act of puncturing with a small point; 'he gave the balloon a small prick'.

(verb.) to cause a sharp emotional pain; 'The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience'.

(verb.) cause a stinging pain; 'The needle pricked his skin'.

录入:卢卡斯

• The feeling was about what might be expected from the prick of a sharp needle at a white heat. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Holmes pricked up his ears. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I saw that word pricked him and kept on. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He pricked up his ears at the word; he started erect at the gesture, and came, with head lovingly depressed, to receive the expected caress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The landlord pricked up his ears. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Round about, spiked, slashed snow-peaks pricked the heaven. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The thought pricked up all her sharp intelligence and presence of mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was not so much what she said; it was she herself who roused him, roused him with a small, vivid pricking. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The pain from the pricking of the skin by the needles is exasperating; but when the explosions of the cartridges commence the animal becomes frantic. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He then stopped as though waiting for my reply, pricking up his antennae-like ears and cocking his strange-looking eyes still further toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

编辑:罗伊