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单词 bristle
释义
bristle
noun
uk
/ˈbrɪs.əl/us
/ˈbrɪs.əl/
[C]
ashort,stiffhair, usually one of many:
短而硬的毛；刚毛
Theoldwoman had a fewgreybristlessproutingfrom herchin.老妇人下巴上长出几根灰白的又短又硬的毛。
[CorU]
The bristles of abrushare thestiffhairsorpiecesofplasticthat areconnectedto it:
刷子毛
Thebestqualitymen'sshavingbrushesare made frombadgerbristle.最好的男用修面刷由獾毛制成。
Mytoothbrushhasblueandwhiteplasticbristles.我的牙刷上有蓝白塑料刷毛。
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
  • astrakhan
  • baleen
  • bristly
  • bushy
  • coated
  • dander
  • eiderdown
  • feather
  • fleece
  • fur
  • hackles
  • horsehair
  • lambswool
  • mane
  • mother-of-pearl
  • pelt
  • sable
  • sheepskin
  • spine
  • wishbone
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bristly
bristle
verb
uk
/ˈbrɪs.əl/us
/ˈbrɪs.əl/

bristleverb(HAIR)

[I]
(ofhair) tostandup:
（毛发等）直立
The cat'sfurbristled and itarcheditsback.那只猫竖起了毛，弓起了背。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving upwards
  • ascend
  • ascension
  • ascent
  • be on an upward/downward trajectoryidiom
  • clamber
  • come
  • come up
  • heave
  • hoick
  • levitate
  • levitation
  • mount
  • pull
  • rear
  • rise
  • scale
  • scramble
  • shinny
  • soar
  • trajectory
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Protruding and sticking out

bristleverb(REACT ANGRILY)

toreactangrily:
生气
She bristledatthesuggestionthat she had in any wayneglectedthechild.人们认为她多少有点忽略了这孩子，这种看法使她很生气。
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Becoming angry and expressing anger
  • (almost) burst a blood vesselidiom
  • ape
  • ballistic
  • bananas
  • bay for bloodidiom
  • blow
  • chip
  • fly off the handleidiom
  • fulminating
  • fume
  • get bent out of shapeidiom
  • getyourknickers in a twistidiom
  • roof
  • sharp
  • sharpness
  • splenetic
  • stew
  • temper
  • tempered
  • throw
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Phrasal verb

bristle withsomething
(Definition ofbristlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bristle| American Dictionary

bristle
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈbrɪs·əl/
ashort,stiffhair:
[Cusually pl]Theoldbrushhadlostmost ofitsbristles.
bristle
verb[I]
us
/ˈbrɪs·əl/
(ofhairs) tostandup because offearoranger, or (ofpeople) to showanger:
The cat’sfurbristled.
She bristles atinjustice.

bristly

adjectiveus
/ˈbrɪs·li/
a bristlychin
(Definition ofbristlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbristle

bristle
Scutellum with similar colouring to that of the thorax, the mid lobe with six bristles and the lateral lobes with four.
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Despite the deceptive brevity of the index, the text bristles with names, dates, and details.
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Sternopleural bristles were counted, on females only, on both sides of the thorax.
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The wild-type number of scutellar bristles is four.
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The ix5 mutant also affects the morphology of the mechanosensory bristles of the terminal abdominal segment of both male and female.
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Abdomen shining black, with black pubescence and bristles and no grey markings.
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Rather than delighting in an arrested infancy, he was bristling with the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence.
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When a tangential force is applied, the bristles will deflect.
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I was struck by the archaeologist's attention to concrete detail: precise measurement and characterization ('eleven rows of bristles'; p. 122).
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The mid and hind femora have 7 dorsal notches, the first, second, fourth, and seventh (apical) notches bearing each a pair of bristles.
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The bristles are rather short and those placed on the head and thorax are approximately thicker than is usual in the allied fleas.
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The bristles at the sides of the posterior tergites are short and hardly project beyond the edge of the abdomen.
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He also provides a detailed description of the item itself: how long is it, how many bristles does it have, even giving dimensions in millimetres.
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Indeed, it was all too quickly crowded off the agenda of official responses, by a governing culture bristling with revenge and self-justification.
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The most striking structural feature is the short head with its strongly developed bristles.
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