Thorny

(adj.) bristling with perplexities; 'the thorny question of states' rights' .

整理:塞丽娜

• This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• All trees are protected by nature; some are protected from bugs eating their leaves, by other bugs eating up these bugs; other trees are protected by having a thorny or bristly bark. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But the path of early reasoners is beset by thorny entanglements, and he will not proceed a step without first clearing the ground. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Come, Jo, don't be thorny. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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