prick

vt.
1. puncture with a pin （用针）刺。
prick down: mark or indicate by a puncture,mark onthe list. enlist. choose 用刺痕标明或指出，把…记录在花名册上，登记，选择。
△2H.IV.2.4.364 (332): “The fiendhath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable，”魔鬼已经把巴道夫当做不可救药者登记在案。
2. make a hole,or mark,by pricking 扎一个洞，扎一个记号。
prick off: mark (one) off the list of the living,finishoff把（某人）从活人名单中勾销，把…干掉。
△1H.IV.5.1131 (130): “Yea,but how if honour prick me offwhen I come on?”不错.但是我向前冲的时候，荣誉把我一笔勾销了又该怎么办呢？
3. pin钉住.插。
△Shr.3. 2. 71 (69):“pricked in't for afeather.” 插在帽子上，代替羽饰。
4. remove with a needle（用针）挑出，剔出。
△Rom.1.4.66(68): “Not half so big as a round little worm /Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.”(There was asaying that when maids were idle worms grew in theirfingers.) 它的大小还不及从贪懒丫头指甲缝里挑出来的小胖蛆的一半。
5. goad用刺棒驱赶，刺。
△2H.IV.3.2.188 (175):“Come,prick Bullcalf till he roar again.”来，选上(双关：刺)小牛犊，让他用吼叫来反应。
△2H.IV.3.2. 191(178):“What,dost thou roar before thou art pricked?”怎么，还没有刺你，你就吼叫了吗？
6. goad,i.e. nag,provoke,worry,vex用刺棒驱赶，（比喻）困扰，刺激，使烦恼，使焦虑。
△2H.IV.3.2.124 (111):“I was pricked well enough before,and you couldhave let me alone.”我过去已经受够骚扰了，求你放了我吧。7. spur,urge,incite鞭策，激励，刺激。
△Oth.3.3.413(412):“Pricked to't by foolish honesty and love，”由于被愚蠢的诚实和忠爱所驱使。
△Shr.3.2.75 (72): “’Tissome odd humour pricks him to this fashion；”大概是一时异想天开，促使他装扮成这般模样。
prick on: spur forward,urge on,incite,instigate鞭策，驱使，刺激，挑动。
△1H.IV.5.1.130(129):“Well,'tisno matter,honor pricks me on.”好，那没啥，荣誉鞭策我前进。
△1H.VI.3.2.77:“Vow,Burgundy,by honourof thy house,/ Pricked on by public wrongs sustainedin France,/ Either to get the town again,or die.”勃艮第，凭着你的家族荣誉发誓，法兰西所蒙受的共同耻辱也刺激着你，不夺取这座城市，就去死亡。
△Ham.1.1.83: “Theretopricked on by a most emulate pride.”为骄矜好胜所驱使。
8. attire,clothe,deck out 使穿衣，给穿衣，打扮。
△2H.IV.3.2.165(152):“but if he had been a man'stailor,he'd have pricked you.”但是如果他是个男装裁缝，他就会把你打扮起来。
9. mark down on the list,choose,pick out（在名单上）把…记下，选择，选出。
△2H.IV.3.2.123 (110): “Prickhim. ”选了他。
△2H.IV.3.2.127 (114):“You need notto have pricked me，”你不必再挑选我了。
10. ❶ choose选择。
❷ fasten with pins用别针钉住。
△2H.IV.3.2.158(145):“Prick him no more.”别再挑选他了(双关：不必再用别针把他钉住了)。