briar

常见例句

"What are you doing?" asked Briar Rose.
布瑞尔·罗丝问道，“你在做什么？
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.
许多年过去了，时不时会有一个国王的儿子想要进入这个著名的蔷薇篱中试图寻找传说中神奇的进入梦乡的公主，但是没有一个人能成功进去的，篱笆太茂盛了王子们进不去。
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.
而且即便有人纯然是出于恶性而作恶，那也不过像荆棘藜枯一般，刺扎戳钩皆因其没别的本事。

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