bite

Compared meaning: to cause sharp pain, as an animal (verb).

比较义项：刺痛，引起剧痛（动词）。

• bite 本词

  Bite implies pain from an animal or insect closing its jaws or mouthparts on the skin, often leaving tooth marks; typical of dogs, mosquitoes, and figuratively cold or wind.

  咬（bite）强调动物或昆虫用牙齿或口器咬合皮肤造成的疼痛，常留下咬痕；多用于狗、蚊子等，也可比喻寒冷或风“刺痛”皮肤。

  Mosquitoes kept biting my ankles all evening at the campsite.

  露营那晚，蚊子一直在咬我的脚踝。

• sting

  Sting implies a sharp, burning pain from a stinger, venom, or irritating substance, with no biting involved; typical of bees, wasps, nettles, and jellyfish.

  刺痛（sting）强调毒刺、毒液或刺激性物质造成的尖锐灼痛，不涉及牙齿咬合；多用于蜜蜂、黄蜂、荨麻和水母等。

  A jellyfish stung her leg while she was swimming in the sea.

  她在海里游泳时，一只水母刺痛了她的腿。

Bite and sting both mean sharp pain. Bite is pain from an animal's jaws closing on skin, like dogs or mosquitoes. Sting is sharp, burning pain from a stinger or venom, without biting, like bees or nettles. Bite can mean 'eat food'; not compared.

这两个词都可表示（动物、昆虫等）刺痛、引起剧痛，容易混淆；但bite强调用牙齿或口器咬合造成的疼痛，常留下咬痕，sting强调毒刺、毒液或刺激性物质造成的尖锐灼痛，通常不留咬痕。这里不比较bite的“咬（食物）、蚕食”等其他常见义项。