英:[ˈpɪnprɪk]
美:[ˈpɪnˌprɪk]
英:[ˈpɪnprɪk]
美:[ˈpɪnˌprɪk]
pin·prick
pIn prIk
复数:pinpricks
第三人称单数:pinpricks
现在分词:pinpricking
过去式:pinpricked
过去分词:pinpricked
noun
a small puncture made by or as if by a pin
a petty irritation or annoyance
verb
transitive verb
to administer pinpricks to
intransitive verb
to administer pinpricks
也称 pin-prick,1851年,指“针刺的感觉”,源自 pin(n.)和 prick(n.)。从1885年开始比喻小的烦恼。早期称为 pin's prick(1825年)。
The first known use of pinprick was in 1755
pinto1 of 2noun
a horse or pony marked with patches of white and another color
pinto2 of 2adjective
pied, mottled
pintailnoun
a bird (as a duck or grouse) with long central tail feathers
pintnoun
a unit of capacity equal to ½ quart see measure
a pint container
pinstripenoun
a very thin stripe on a fabricalso: a suit with such stripes
pinpricknoun
a small puncture made by or as if by a pinalso: a small but unpleasant sensation
the steady pinprick of a guilty conscience
1 There was a heart-stopping, ruby-red pinprick of a beauty mark just beneath her eye.
2 I stare into the black pinprick that is his gun barrel.
3 An unexplained pinprick mark What investigators found particularly suspicious was a pinprick mark on Maria Muñoz's right elbow crease, the type someone would get after getting an IV. Webb County District Attorney's OfficeWhat Pellot couldn't explain was a red mark on Muñoz's right elbow crease.
4 I cringe, remembering the pinpricks like ant bites, and can’t help the side glance at the barrel of stasis gel right next to the pod.
5 On clear nights, the stars shone, and their pinprick light comforted Edward in a way that he could not quite understand.
6 He felt a pinprick of nerves along his spine—he’d had no idea it was going to be so busy.
7 Even as I watched, a pinprick of light near the horizon erupted silently, pulsed with soft blue light, then spread outward.
8 It’s all documented on small pieces of paper that pile up back at Save the Rhino Trust headquarters in the pinprick of a town, Palmwag.
9 He felt a pinprick in his leg.
10 An ambulance careened into the alley and raced toward us, its headlights blacked out so that only pinpricks of light shone through.
11 There is a cluster of lights ahead of us, some just pinpricks, like flashlights, and others round, like headlights.
12 Bonobo played an aquatically chill set of slow-moving dance music, followed by Four Tet, who kept his tempo but shifted to pinprick-precise, bucolic house.
13 With the sun and sky just a pinprick far above, the light around takes on a dimming azure shade.
14 Chiang-Nan seven strangely lay siege to, fly the poison pinprick of a day bat in my double eye.
江南七怪的围攻,飞天蝙蝠的毒针刺中了我的双眼。
15 The purpose is to observe the effect of LIDP with different pinprick methods, and then we can choose the best way to improve the effect.
目的是观察不同针刺方法治疗腰椎间盘突出症的临床疗效,以选择最佳治疗方法,提高疗效。
16 Now, nearly half a millennium after Galileo marveled at the myriad pinpricks of light—moons, planets, and stars—in Earth’s skies, his successors are getting acquainted with the brightest tip of the iceberg of darker objects adrift between them.
17 The two eagles flew so high that from the ground they were the tiniest of pinpricks in the sky.
18 They were swollen with hundreds of red welts, pinprick bruises that would grow into a blue stubble across my skin.
19 It was like hurting in retrospect, each repetition of it a pinprick.
20 They saw far beyond the lake a bobbing pinprick of light—a torch being carried along the drive—but they did not comment on it.
2 小点
4 小圆点
6 刺激
exciting electric incentive stimulating fiery irritating stimulant irritant action-packed charge kick boot trigger belt jar motivation needle excitement bang spur cue yeast ginger encouragement impulse stimulus irritation sting mustard motif scorpion persuasive provocative impetus prod provocation bracing excitation whet inducement goad hypo wallop fillip hotfoot impulsion agitate jangle fire challenge fuel bite prompt cite urge excite motivate hop stimulate gig motive hype provoke goose irritate nudge incite quicken startle pique catalyze rev rasp innervate eroticize adrenalize a kick in the ass a shot in the arm
12 刺
job spine stab poke thrust Thorn prick prod quill thrusting prickle JAG stick pink spike lunge jab prong chib jook scratch
13 针孔