thorns [θɔ:nz]

例句:

• Roses will always have thorns but with care they can be avoided.
  玫瑰花上都有刺，不过只要小心就碰不到。
  来自柯林斯例句
• Mortify Your flesh...with scourges and with thorns.
  来自Tennyson
• We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
  当我们下定决心面对世界上所有事物，包括荆棘难题，就已经打赢了半场战役。
  
• I was sitting on the thorns while waiting for the outcome.
  等待结果时我如坐针毡.
  
• One neckpiece resembles a cage of thorns.
  来自VOA
• Mark Lawrence's Prince of Thorns is a case in point.
  来自THETIMES