See what it is to be well trained. Horace said to me yesterday, "If every one would kill adders they would come to sting less." I answered: "Of course they would, for there would be fewer." He replied indignantly: "I did not mean that; but the timid adders which run away would be saved, and in time would never sting at all." Natural selection of cowards!英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
I feel my angry sting is stiffening, that sharp sting, with英文原著 · 《The Wasps》
This expressive greeting, from the patient herself, was the first heart-sting I received,--a sting which brought a flush into my cheek which I would fain have kept down.英文原著 · 《The Woman in the Alcove》
And likewise sinners and bad consciences! Believe me, my friends: the sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
"I reckon he'd jes as lieve have me ride him as you, Jas," she said. " Me 'n' him have got to be great friends. Ye orter n't to be so stingy."英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
The dart, the beams, the sting, so strong I prove, Which my chief part doth pass through, parch, and tie, That of the stroke, the heat, and knot of love, Wounded, inflamed, knit to the death, I die.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Or to mess with him like in "The Sting." That's nothing like what happened in "The Sting."美剧 · 《The News Room》
Yeah, but a sting's another word for -- Okay, let's start the sting.美剧 · 《White Collar》