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barb/bɑ:b/ n. & v.●n. 1 a secondary backward-facing projection from an arrow, fish-hook, etc., angled to make extraction difficult (箭头、鱼钩等的)倒钩 2 a deliberately hurtful remark 故意伤人的话 3 a beardlike filament at the mouth of some fish, e.g. barbel and catfish (某些鱼嘴上的)触须(如鲃、鲇) 4 any one of the fine hairlike filaments growing from the shaft of a feather, forming the vane 羽支 ●v. tr. 1 provide (an arrow, a fish-hook, etc.) with a barb or barbs 给(箭头、鱼钩等)装倒钩 2 (as 作 barbed adj.) (of a remark etc.) deliberately hurtful (话语等)故意伤人的 □ barbless adj.[Middle English via Old French barbe from Latin barba ‘beard’] |