smarting [
'smɑ:tiŋ]
n. 剧烈疼痛;刺痛
vi. 感到刺痛;感到难受(smart的现在分词)
adj. 剧烈疼痛的
- Stone sober as I was, I was still smarting from those old insults and injuries.
尽管我非常镇定自若,这些老一套的侮辱和伤害仍使我感到痛苦。 - Air pollution may affect humans directly, causing a smarting of the eyes or coughing.
空气污染会直接影响人,造成眼睛刺痛或咳嗽。 - Some designers said they are still smarting and deciding whether they will continue supplying certain chains.
一部分设计师仍然感到难受,将决定是否继续为这些连锁店提供支持。
smarting[ noun ]
a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
<noun.state>
Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smarted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Smarting}.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten,
smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW.
sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo,
and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. ????, ?????,
terrible, fearful, Skr. m?d to rub, crush. Cf. {Morsel}.]
1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part
of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger
smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak.
2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or
grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
--Prov. xi.
15.