Chinese English Dictionary Online

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  • thorns
  • thorny (problem)
  • intractable
  • thorny problem
  • troublesome affair
Trad. 荊棘
  • thistles and thorns
  • brambles
  • thorny undergrowth
Trad. 沙棘屬
  • genus Hippophae
  • sea-buckthorns
Trad. 披荊斬棘
  • lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)
  • fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way
  • to break through hardships
  • to blaze a new trail
Trad. 棘皮動物
  • echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
Trad. 食荼臥棘
  • to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
Trad. 荊棘載途
  • lit. a path covered in brambles
  • a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)
Trad. 棘鼻青島龍
  • Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout

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