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.
卡斯特罗政权是一根肉中刺,然而还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]
他笔下的人物没有一个不是肉中带着这根刺,不去刺激它,也没有一个人不是在情感和永生中寻求解决之法。 - 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.
戴维的诗篇中最能安慰人的几篇,乃是在苦难中压出来的;如果保罗没有一根刺加在他肉体上,在他许多的书信上一定会失去许多温柔! - Mr Hachani was certainly a thorn in the regime's flesh.
ECONOMIST: Abdelkader Hachani