His words were barbed but they were the barbs of truth.

他说的话是带刺的，但都是些带刺的大实话。

PRESIDENT TRUMP DELIVERED A fairly traditional mix of barbs and bromides during his 80-minute State of the Union address on Jan. 30, but one seemingly anodyne claim was actually pretty audacious.

在1月30日发表的80分钟国情咨文演讲，总统特朗普继续走了冷嘲热讽和陈词滥调的老路，然而，其中一个看似平平无奇的主张实际上是非常大胆的。

A stingray, 15 feet long that lives in freshwater and has a venomous barb up to 15 inches long.

一种体长15英尺的黄貂鱼，生活在淡水中，有长达15英寸的毒刺。

The shark's skin isn't covered with scales, like other fish: instead the skin's covered with barbs, giving it a rough texture like sandpaper.

鲨鱼的皮肤不像其他鱼类一样由鳞覆盖。相反，它的皮肤布满了倒钩，形成砂纸一样的粗。

Each barb branches into barbules, which link to one another by hooks.

每根羽支分拨成小羽，小羽通过钩子相互连接。

They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

他们交换务实的建议，友好的玩笑和关于他们傲慢的同的不那么友好的挖苦。

Well, I mean, the two sides were trading legal barbs over the weekend.

嗯，周末，双方在法律上针锋相对。

But now for the barbs; thou must make them thyself, man.

可是现在要对付的是倒钩，你得自己打了，老兄。

The sharp metal barbs tore the skin of the men who stretched it along fence tops. But they prevented cattle from pushing over the fences and destroying crops.

锋利的金属倒钩划破了那些拉拽篱笆顶端人的皮肤。但是，它们阻止了牛越过栅栏去毁坏庄稼。

The excitement of the party banished, for the most part, the memory of Rhett's barbs and she was happy, happier than she had been in years as she planned her reception.

准备这次宴会，使她感到兴奋，在大部分时间里，她忘了瑞德那些刺耳的话。

Atoms moved around in space, but because they had " hooks" and " barbs" , they could join together to form all the things we see around us.

这些原予在空间中到处移动，但因为它们有“钩”与“刺”，因此可以组成我们周遭所见的事物。

But mammal skin is thick and made of tiny little fibers that tend to tangle up the barbs on the bee's stinger.

但哺乳动物的皮肤很厚，由微小的纤维组成，容易把蜜蜂毒刺上的倒钩缠住。

The meeting is a milestone in recent approachment efforts after a rocky relationship in the past, when both often traded angry barbs.

在经历了过去不稳定的关系后，这次会面是最近接触努力中的一个里程碑，当时两人经常愤怒相互讽刺。

The meeting is a milestone in recent rapprochement efforts after a rocky relationship in the past, when both often traded angry barbs.

这次会面是最近和解努力中的一个里程碑，在过去双方关系不稳定的时候，双方经常进行愤怒的针锋相对。

These fuzzy, non-interlocking barbs that basically catch air close to the bird's body, very similar to mammal fur.

这些羽毛就像毛茸茸的非互锁倒钩一样，它们基本上可以在靠近鸟类身体的方捕捉空气，非常类似于哺乳动物的毛皮。

Glidden's solution: bind the barbs between two links of wire.

格利登的方法是用铁刺连接两股钢丝。

In a ship I belonged to, a small cub Sperm Whale was once bodily hoisted to the deck for his poke or bag, to make sheaths for the barbs of the harpoons, and for the heads of the lances.

在我受雇的一艘船上，有一头抹香鲸幼崽曾被吊上甲板来，为了取它的鳔来做标枪倒钩和鱼枪头的鞘。

Today, the typical feather consists of a central shaft, called a rachis, with serial paired barbs forming a flat, curved surface, which is called a vane.

今天，典型的羽毛包含一个中心轴（称为羽轴），还有连续成对的羽支形成平坦弯曲的表面，这被称为叶片。

Bird feathers have highly water-resistant parts called the pennaceous barb, which stops the water from actually going in and soaking the rest of the bird.

鸟儿的羽毛具有高度防水的部分，叫做羽状倒钩，它可以阻止水进入并浸泡鸟的其余部分。

So, the owl feathers, the ends of the barbs have combs or little brushes that basically break up the air in a way that it doesn't produce a sound when it's flying.

因此猫头鹰的羽毛倒钩的末端就像梳子或小刷子一样，基本上以某种方式划破空气，飞行时不会发出声音。