Now I'm floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee I earned my stripes.

现在我是破茧的蝴蝶，在空中偏偏起舞。又如带刺的蜜蜂，纹上自己的花纹。

It looked normal, but it was still stinging.

哈利地端详着镜子里他额头上的伤疤，看不出有什么异常，可是仍然钻心地疼。

And I'm an entomologist. I basically study stinging insects.

我是一位昆虫学家。我主要研究会叮咬的昆虫。

That's right. And we can use 'stinging' before other nouns, as well.

没错。我们也可以在其他名词前使用“刺痛的”。

What's the difference between these two drownings, stinging creatures?

这两种会蜇人的昆虫有什么区别？

They are one of the only fish immune to the sea anemone's stinging tentacles.

它们是唯一对海葵带刺的触须免疫的鱼类。

OK. I'm not usually in the habit of accepting a handful of stinging insects.

好的。我通常没有接受一把带刺昆虫的习惯。

They're stinging me like crazy. I really want you to let go.

它们在疯狂地蜇人。你先离开这儿。

The wind is very strong and the rain is hammering down and stinging our faces.

风很大，雨水敲打着我们的脸。

I am quite sure a stinging nettle is of no use in the world.

我确信荨麻是世上的一种无用之物。

The writing of these stinging letters made Mark Twain feel better.

写完这挖苦人的信以后，马克·吐温感到痛快多了。

I'm not usually in the habit of accepting a handful of stinging insects.

我还没有习惯接受一小撮带刺昆虫(蜜蜂)。

The poor bees tried to drive them away by stinging them.

可怜的蜜蜂试图用叮刺把它们赶走。

Mr Buthelezi, the great-grandson of King Cetshwayo, who inflicted a stinging military defeat on the British in the late 19th century, stoked up Zulu nationalism and ethnic conflict that led to thousands of deaths in the 1980s and 1990s.

布特莱齐是祖鲁国王开芝瓦约的曾孙，开芝瓦约在19世纪末使英国人遭受了惨痛的军事失败，而布特莱齐煽动祖鲁民族主义和种族冲突，导致上世纪80年代和90年代数千人死亡。

Nose still stinging where it had hit the hearth, Harry made his way swiftly and silently toward the door, but before he'd got halfway toward it, two people appeared on the other side of the glass.

鼻子还火辣辣地痛，哈利迅速轻手轻脚地向门口走去，可是还没走到一半，玻璃另一边出现了两个人。

We've been through every kind of rain there is-- little bitty stinging rain and big old fat rain, rain that flew in side ways, and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.

我们经历了各种各样的雨… 象小针样的雨还有倾盆大雨，从侧面下的雨，有时甚至还有从下往上的雨。

I remember that I thought their conversation brilliant, and I used to listen with astonishment to the stinging humour with which they would tear a brother-author to pieces the moment that his back was turned.

我还记得，我总觉得他们的谈话富于机智。他们中的一个同行刚一转身，他们就会把他批评得体无完肤；我总是惊讶不置地听着他们辛辣刻毒的幽默话。

Did you say stinging nettles - the wild plants growing everywhere which have leaves covered in hairs that sting when you touch them?

你是说荨麻——到处生长的种野生植物，它们的叶子上覆盖着茸毛，你一摸就会刺痛你？

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism — no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

如果你和我一样想积怨数十年直至离开人间，么，就让我们享受么一点点折磨人的批评吧——不管我们信还是不信，这都是绝对的道理。

Elbert Hubbard was one of the most original authors who ever stirred up a nation, and his stinging sentences often aroused fierce resentment. But Hubbard, with his rare skill for handling people, frequently turned his enemies into friends.

作家埃尔伯特·哈伯德文风犀利，其言论往往会引发某人的怨恨，甚至举国骚动。 不过，哈伯德总是可以凭借自己处理人际关系的宝贵经验化干戈为玉帛，将敌手转化为自己的朋友。