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词汇 bristling
释义 bristling
present participle ofbristle
bristle
verb
uk /ˈbrɪs.əl/ us /ˈbrɪs.əl/

bristleverb (HAIR)


[ I ]
(of hair) to stand up: (毛发等)直立
The cat's fur bristled and it arched its back.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
bristle
clamber
come
come up
heave
levitate
levitation
mount
pull
rear
rise
scale
scramble
shinny
soaring
upwardly

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Protruding and sticking out

bristleverb (REACT ANGRILY)


to react angrily: 生气
She bristled at the suggestion that she had in any way neglected the child.人们认为她多少有点忽略了这孩子,这种看法使她很生气。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming angry and expressing anger
(almost) burst a blood vesselidiom
ape
ballistic
bananas
bay for bloodidiom
blow
chip
fulminating
fume
get bent out of shapeidiom
get your knickers in a twistidiom
give someone evilsidiom
go through the roofidiom
roof
splenetic
splenetically
stew
strop
temper
throw

Phrasal verb


bristle with something

Examples of bristling


bristling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


This is a rich collection, bristling with new questions and challenges.
This is a book positively bristling with personality and individuality and was a tonic to myflaggingopinion of the reference book.
The conditions that make this possible are numerous, complex and bristling with compromises.
Rather than delighting in an arrested infancy, he was bristling with the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence.
Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with a bristling baroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines.
Indeed, it was all too quickly crowded off the agenda of official responses, by a governing culture bristling with revenge and self-justification.
But, for the most part, his prose, orderly, methodical, and bristling with careful anatomical measures, is free of aboriginal words.
It is an object bristling with architectural and agricultural technology.
Matras clearly is fairly bristling with ideas + all to the good, but his style does the ideas a dis-service.
The whole subject is one bristling with technical difficulties.
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Nowadays, fishing is less of an art and more of a science, with factory ships bristling with electronic gadgetry and freezing equipment.
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Hansard archive

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I have to say, however, that the subject would be found to be bristling with difficulties, despite one's sympathy for it.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
This is a subject bristling with issues which merit wide discussion and sometimes more factual research than we have at the moment.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
That "soft under-belly" is proving very much like a bristling porcupine.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Those questions were ingenious in their nature, very comprehensive and bristling with difficulties.
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