barbs

英 [bɑːbz]

美 [bɑrbz]

n.  (箭、钩的)倒钩，倒刺; 挖苦(或伤人、带刺)的话
barb的复数

柯林斯词典

• （箭头、鱼钩等的）倒钩，倒刺
  Abarbis a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
• N-COUNT 带刺的话；尖刻的话
  Abarbis an unkind remark meant as a criticism of someone or something.
  1. The barb stung her exactly the way he hoped it would.
     如他所愿，这句带刺的话刺痛了她。

双语例句

• I tried to ignore their barbs about my new jacket.
  我不想理睬他们对我的新外套发表的冷言冷语。
• Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.
  每隔一段时间阻止通行的坚硬的金属丝。
• He tried to offer an explanation, but I just started in on a litany of nasty barbs.
  他想解释，可我又说了一连串难听的话刺他。
• Some critics take pride in their prejudices, slinging vitriolic barbs at a specific actor or genre with relish.
  有些评论家在固执己见的同时还保持着一定的傲慢，挺不是滋味儿地向某个特定的演员或者电影流派亮出他们毒辣的锋芒。
• A plurality of side barbs are distributed around the central main barb, with every fishing line on every side barb threading a plastic branch pipe of an inside lining steel wire.
  在中心主钓周边分布有若干旁钩，旁钩上的鱼线穿套在内衬钢丝的塑料支管内，塑料支管的中部通过连接件固接在基座的下部；
• While exchanging barbs publicly, Mr Icahn and the Yahoo board had been talking privately for some time, according to a person close to Yahoo.
  据一位熟悉雅虎的人士称，尽管双方公开攻击对方，但伊卡恩和雅虎董事会私下谈判已有一段时间。
• He was bullied in school; maye assured her son that she, too, got picked on as a child and that her twin sister often shielded her from classmates 'barbs.
  埃隆在学校经常被人欺负；梅耶鼓励儿子说，她小时候也经常被人捉弄，她的双胞胎姐姐会充当她的挡箭牌，抵挡同学的冷嘲热讽。
• Gone were the usual barbs from female contestants aimed at the men attempting to win their affection.
  节目改版后，没有了之前女嘉宾对试图赢得她们好感的男嘉宾的那番犀利尖刻的评价。
• Every northern winter, Japan faces barbs for sending awhaling fleet into Antarctic waters.
  每年北半球冬季时节，日本会因为向南极海域派遣捕鲸船而面临人们的嘲讽。
• Colonel Qaddafi, who immediately followed Mr. Obama and whose speech contained no shortage of barbs against the United States without naming it directly, also heaped praise on the idea that the United States had elected a "son of Africa" as president.
  卡扎菲紧随奥巴马之后发表演说。虽然，演说中也包含很多针对美国的刻薄言论，但他并没有直接抨击，而且还对美国选出一名非洲的儿子为总统大加赞赏。