1. Don't panic-- it's the tough core of the pineapple, not the prickly skin that you should tuck into. 别惊恐——你应该吃的是菠萝坚硬的果核，而不是多刺的外皮。
2. The fruit of this plant has a hard, prickly rind and soft pulp with an offensive odor but a pleasant taste. 这种植物的果实，果皮有硬刺，果肉柔软，气味难闻，但味道可口。
3. If the center of your flower is a circle, but your petals are pointy, you are probably hiding a warm heart behind a prickly defensiveness. 如果花心是圆形的，但是花瓣确是尖的，那你可能是把一颗温暖的心隐藏在多刺的防御后面。
4. The ancient fecal material, or coprolite, was littered with seared prickly pear seeds and flecked with small bones from fish, birds, and rodents. 这块古代排泄物或粪化石，同烧焦的多刺梨种子散落在一起，点缀着来自鱼、鸟、啮齿目动物的小块骨头。
5. Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding". 早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。
