His words were barbed but they were the barbs of truth.

他说的话是带刺的，但都是些带刺的大实话。

Well, I mean, the two sides were trading legal barbs over the weekend.

嗯，周末，双方在法律上针锋相对。

Glidden's solution: bind the barbs between two links of wire.

格利登的方法是用铁刺连接两股钢丝。

A stingray, 15 feet long that lives in freshwater and has a venomous barb up to 15 inches long.

一种体长15英尺的黄貂鱼，生活在淡水中，有长达15英寸的毒刺。

It burns in the middle of metal barbed wire.

它在倒刺铁丝中间燃烧。

The barb was invisible from this distance, but my stomach flipped.

在这个距离我不可能看见针上的倒钩，但我的胃还是翻腾起来。

But now for the barbs; thou must make them thyself, man.

可是现在要对付的是倒钩，你得自己打了，老兄。

Each barb branches into barbules, which link to one another by hooks.

每根羽支分拨成小羽，小羽通过钩子相互连接。

They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

他们交换务实的建议，友好的玩笑和关于他们傲慢的同等阶层的不那么友好的挖苦。

We didn't know how to take the hook out. It was probably barbed.

我们不知道怎么把鱼从鱼钩上取下来，因为有可能钩子上有倒钩。

He had written for the alternative newspaper Berkeley Barb and then gone back to being a computer engineer.

他也曾为地下报纸《伯克利芒刺报 》写过文章，之后又干回老本行，成为了一名电脑工程师。

These fuzzy, non-interlocking barbs that basically catch air close to the bird's body, very similar to mammal fur.

这些羽毛就像毛茸茸的非互锁倒钩一样，它们基本上可以在靠近鸟类身体的地方捕捉空气，非常类似于哺乳动物的毛皮。

We sterilized it. Also clipped off the barb.

消过毒 去掉了倒钩。

The meeting is a milestone in recent approachment efforts after a rocky relationship in the past, when both often traded angry barbs.

在经历了过去不稳定的关系后，这次会面是最近接触努力中的一个里程碑，当时两人经常愤怒地相互讽刺。

The meeting is a milestone in recent rapprochement efforts after a rocky relationship in the past, when both often traded angry barbs.

这次会面是最近和解努力中的一个里程碑，在过去双方关系不稳定的时候，双方经常进行愤怒的针锋相对。

But mammal skin is thick and made of tiny little fibers that tend to tangle up the barbs on the bee's stinger.

但哺乳动物的皮肤很厚，由微小的纤维组成，容易把蜜蜂毒刺上的倒钩缠住。

She also suffered from the barb ofa lonely love.

她也饱受孤独爱情的折磨。

See, priapulids have heads that are lined with tiny barbs.

看，priapulids 的头上排列着小倒钩。

The wonder shot through her again, barbed with a sneer.

惊奇再次射穿了她， 带着冷笑。

He leaped upward, planting his feet against that wall, leaning out against the clinging barbs.

他向上一跃，双脚抵住那堵墙，靠在紧贴的倒钩上。