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
- If you are really angry you might say you are mad as a hornet.
当你真的发怒时，你可以说你怒不可遏。 - 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。 - When my father sees the dent in his fender, he'll be mad as hornet.
我父亲看到汽车挡泥板上的凹痕时，他一定会发怒的。 - 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。 - Any of various social wasps, such as the hornet, that builds papery nests from chewed wood pulp.
例如大黄蜂等多种群居蜂中的任意一种，它们用吮吸的树木的浆后，建造极薄的蜂巢。 - The sixteen airplanes and their crews were placed on the aircraft carrier Hornet near San Francisco.
十六架飞机和乘务员被安置在旧金山附近的大黄蜂航空母舰上。 - You're the fabulous Hudson hornet!
你就是传说中的哈德森赫奈特！ - 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。 - Stephen Chow was previously attached to direct and star in the upcoming Seth Rogen film "The Green Hornet," but ended up leaving due to a difference of opinion.
周星驰曾想要导演和主演塞思的电影“青蜂侠”，但由于意见分歧最终离开。 - In the vernacular it can mean a sting of a bee, wasp, hornet, or yellow jacket.
通俗来说，它可能是一只蜜蜂、黄蜂、大黄蜂或者黄夹克。