briar

常見例句

"What are you doing?" asked Briar Rose.
布瑞爾·羅絲問道，“你在做什么？
Years passed, and from time to time a King's son would come to the famous briar hedge to try and find the mysterious sleeping Princess that the legend spoke of. But none got through.
許多年過去了，時(shí)不時(shí)會(huì)有一個(gè)國(guó)王的兒子想要進(jìn)入這個(gè)著名的薔薇籬中試圖尋找傳說中神奇的進(jìn)入夢(mèng)鄉(xiāng)的公主，但是沒有一個(gè)人能成功進(jìn)去的，籬笆太茂盛了王子們進(jìn)不去。
And if any man should do wrong, merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.
而且即便有人純?nèi)皇浅鲇趷盒远鲪海且膊贿^像荊棘藜枯一般，刺扎戳鉤皆因其沒別的本事。

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