thorn in the flesh
基本解释
- 肉中刺
英汉例句
- The Castro regime is a thorn in the flesh; but it is not adaggerin the heart.
卡斯特羅政權是一根肉中刺,然而還不是刺在心上的一把刀。 - There is not one of his characters who does not have that thorn in the flesh, who does not aggravate it or seek a remedy for it in sensation or immortality.[24]
他筆下的人物沒有一個不是肉中帶著這根刺,不去刺激它,也沒有一個人不是在情感和永生中尋求解決之法。 - The most comforting of David's psalms were pressed out by suffering; and if Paul had not had his thorn in the flesh we had missed much of that tenderness which quivers in so many of his letters.
戴維的詩篇中最能安慰人的幾篇,迺是在苦難中壓出來的;如果保羅沒有一根刺加在他肉躰上,在他許多的書信上一定會失去許多溫柔! - Mr Hachani was certainly a thorn in the regime's flesh.
ECONOMIST: Abdelkader Hachani