hornet
英 [ˈhɔːnɪt]
美 [ˈhɔːrnɪt]
n. 大黄蜂; 马蜂
复数：hornets
BNC.21224 / COCA.21471
习惯用语
n.
- a hornets' nest
- 引起公愤的状况；困境
a difficult situation in which a lot of people get very angry - His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornets' nest .
他给报界写的信着实引发了众怒。
牛津词典
noun
- 大黄蜂；马蜂
a large wasp (= a black and yellow flying insect) that has a very powerful sting
柯林斯词典
- 大黄蜂;大胡蜂;马蜂
Ahornetis a large wasp. Hornets live in nests and have a powerful sting. - 一大堆麻烦;棘手的局面;马蜂窝
If you say that someone has stirred upa hornet's nest, you mean that they have done something which has caused a lot of argument or trouble.
英英释义
noun
- large stinging paper wasp
双语例句
- The manager has stirred up a hornet's nest because he did not agree with the stall.
经理没同意员工的意见，员工们很是不高兴。 - Jay Chou didn't receive good reviews for his movies, but he got more attention for his work in the Hollywood film "The Green Hornet" with American actress Cameron Diaz.
周杰伦自己拍摄的电影没有获得好评，但是他在好莱坞影片《青蜂侠》中和卡梅隆-迪亚兹共同的演出赢得了更多关注。 - The government stirred up a hornet's nest by changing the prices of the goods.
政府更改了物价标准，因而激起了众怒。 - One day, early in training camp, former Cavalier, Hornet and Milwaukee Buck Robert "Tractor" Traylor showed up at practice and told Turner he had signed with the team.
一天，训练营开始时，前骑士、黄蜂、雄鹿球员“拖拉机”罗伯特。泰勒出现在训练中，并告诉特纳他已经和球队签约。 - Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.
并且耶和华你神必打发黄蜂飞到他们中间，直到那剩下而藏躲的人从你面前灭亡。 - His reform scheme had failed so miserably that perhaps he felt he ought not raise a hornet's nest about his head so soon after the troubles he had gone through.
他的改革计划已彻底失败，也许他觉得在他刚刚遭到挫败之后不应该再使自己成为众矢之的。 - Jane can getas mad as a hornet when someone criticizes her.
当有人批评简的时候，她就很生气。 - It is truly incredible that even a hornet could thus recognize a living enlightened master!
连一只蜜蜂也认得在世明师，真是不可思议！ - The student made the teacher as mad as a hornet!
学生们都快把老师给逼疯了。 - And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
我打发黄蜂飞在你们前面，将亚摩利人的二王从你们面前撵出，并不是用你的刀，也不是用你的弓。