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词汇 barb
释义 barb
noun[ C ]
uk /bɑːb/ us /bɑːrb/

barbnoun[C] (POINT)


the sharp part that points backwards from a fish hook (= curved piece of wire) or arrow, making it hard to remove it from something(鱼钩或箭头的)倒钩,倒刺
 
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barbnoun[C] (REMARK)


a remark that is funny but unkind: 带刺的话
I tried to ignore their barbs about my new jacket.我努力不去理会他们针对我的新夹克说的那些连讽带刺的话。
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barb | American Dictionary


barb
noun[ C ]
us/bɑrb/

barbnoun[C] (SHARP END)


the sharp part of a fish hook or arrow that makes it difficult to remove from something caught on it

barbnoun[C] (CRUEL REMARK)


an intelligent but critical remark that is intended to hurt:
Some of Weaver’s sharpest barbs were aimed at his boss.

Examples of barb


barb
The teeth of the sting act as barbs.
We need to show that all barbs imply each other.
The main difficulty when proving that two processes are barbed congruent is represented by the quantification over contexts in the definition of barbed congruence.
In both cases the replication theorems are shown valid with respect to (typed) barbed congruence by proving a few barbed bisimilarities.
A preliminary study on the application of the internal structure of feather barbs to avian taxonomy.
Moreover, alley bisimilarity is complete with respect to barbed equivalence for the class of structurally image-finite processes, that is, processes that are image-finite up to structural equivalence.
Next, a standard definition of the barbs exhibited by a process formalizes the idea of the external reads and writes through which a process may interact with its environment.
Connections between two of these artefact types - the antler frontlets and barbed antler points - suggest that some of these items at least retained a strong sense of their 'animalness'.
As the weak early alley bisimulation has been proven to have a significant degree of completeness with respect to barbed equivalence, we study the weak early variants of all bisimulations.
The immediate benefit is that the co-inductive nature of bisimilarity can be exploited by putting its vast body of proof techniques to work in order to reason about barbed congruence.
Except for derelict huts and bashas, the camps were little more than barbed wire enclosures in which wild beasts might have been herded together.
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He is caught in the barbed wire which he himself helped to set up.
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The barbed wire would be necessary to prevent animals from pushing it over.
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They do not deserve the barbed comments and stings which are directed at them.
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The orders for barbed wire have been given not at £14 a ton—though that might have occurred—but at various prices.
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