briar

常见例句

"What are you doing?" asked Briar Rose.
佈瑞爾·羅絲問道，“你在做什麽？
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，時不時會有一個國王的兒子想要進入這個著名的薔薇籬中試圖尋找傳說中神奇的進入夢鄕的公主，但是沒有一個人能成功進去的，籬笆太茂盛了王子們進不去。
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.
而且即便有人純然是出於惡性而作惡，那也不過像荊棘藜枯一般，刺紥戳鉤皆因其沒別的本事。

Finally, note that there are two pleasant surprises in this briar patch.
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