Take a look at the prickly pear.

我们来看看胭脂仙人掌。

And when it grow back, it is less soft. More like a prickly beard.

新长出来毛没以前那么软了，更像是扎人胡须。

Famously prickly, the now-elderly lady with the lamp hated receiving visitors, she hated having her picture taken, she hated being reminded of her fame.

众所周知，这位提灯老太太脾气暴躁，讨厌接待客人，讨厌拍照，讨厌被提醒自己。

That's because these diseases have been all but eliminated by those prickly, pointy shots called vaccines we get as kids.

这是因为这些疾病都是我们小时候常见，但现在通过注射疫苗是可以预防。

Yeah, I mean, that's a - it's a huge issue, and it's a prickly issue.

是，这是个大问题，也是个棘手问题。

But I must warn you, they are a prickly bunch.

但我得警告你 他们可都是刺猬。

As she got older, she became more prickly and forgetful.

【prickly】随着年龄增长，她变得越来越容易动怒，也越来越健忘。

" We've got a few pots of poinsettias which are big red flowers with a very Christmas feel, and there are no prickly needles, so Leonard is safe from causing disasters, " says Helen.

我们买了几盆开着大红花猩猩木，它们能烘托圣诞节气氛，它们上面没有刺，这样莱纳德就不会惹祸。

Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of European fields;sago–bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime;while nutmeg–trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume.

这里一丛丛胡椒树，代替了在欧洲农村用带刺植物筑成篱笆，椰子树和大棵羊齿草伸展着密茂枝叶，点缀着这热带地区风景。那些深色绿叶豆蔻树播散着浓郁香气。

If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn't thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped.

如果乔对此早有所觉，她就会紧紧地封闭自己，比以往更加刺人，幸运是她没有太多地考虑到自己，所以时候一到，她这个刺栗便会从树上坠落下来。

Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly.

过了一会儿，她发现擦在她脸上和手上不再是软软毛皮，而是又硬又粗甚至有点刺人东西了。

" My ankles were all in a fever before, from walking through that prickly furze, and now you must make 'em worse with these vlankers! "

“我刚从带刺荆棘地过来，脚脖子已经给扎得火辣辣了，现在你又要让这些火星烫我，叫我难受。”

Take the humble hedgehog — expanding cities and shrinking hedgerows, toxic pesticides and busy roads are driving our prickly friends to the brink.

以不起眼刺猬为例——城市扩张、树篱减少、有毒农药和繁忙道路正将这些满身刺朋友推向灭绝边缘。

The moss-green velvet curtains felt prickly and soft beneath her cheek and she rubbed her face against them gratefully, like a cat.

那苔绿色窗帘使她脸颊上有一种刺痒而柔软感觉，她欣慰地把脸贴在上面轻轻摩擦。

It sprang to life at once; long, prickly, bramble-like vines flew out of the top and whipped through the air.

它立刻活动了起来，长而多刺像荆棘似藤蔓从它顶部飞出来，在空气中抽动着。

It's a kind of mirror image of their own society with a lot of the same prickly bits and wounds.

这是他们自己社会一种镜像，有多相同刺痛和伤口。

Now new prickly questions about workers' rights and responsibilities loom: can firms monitor remote workers to assess their productivity?

现在，新有关劳动者权利和责任棘手问题也凸显出来：公司可以监控远程办公员工以评估其生产率吗？

If you went outside right now, you could find all kinds: prickly plants, fuzzy plants, floppy plants.

如果你现在走到外面，你会发现各种各样植物：带刺植物，毛茸茸植物，松软植物。

But you could say it's also part of this sort of prickly, assertive nationalism under the Shinzo Abe administration.

但是，也可以说这是安倍晋三政府领导下挑剔且自信民族主义表现。

A wave of hot, prickly anger swept through Harry's body; now could she remind him of that blunder now?

一阵灼热、刺痛怒火席卷了哈利全身；赫敏怎么能在这种时候提起他这个愚蠢错误呢？