Well, I mean, the two sides were trading legal barbs over the weekend.

嗯，周末，双方在法律上针锋相对。

Glidden's solution: bind the barbs between two links of wire.

格利登的方法是用铁刺连接两股钢丝。

A stingray, 15 feet long that lives in freshwater and has a venomous barb up to 15 inches long.

一种体长15英尺的黄貂鱼，生活在淡水中，有长达15英寸的毒刺。

It burns in the middle of metal barbed wire.

它在倒刺铁丝中间燃烧。

The barb was invisible from this distance, but my stomach flipped.

在这个距离我不可能看见针上的倒钩，但我的胃还是翻腾起来。

But now for the barbs; thou must make them thyself, man.

可是现在要对付的是倒钩，你得自己打了，老兄。

Each barb branches into barbules, which link to one another by hooks.

每根羽支分拨成小羽，小羽通过钩子相互连接。

They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

他们交换务实的建议，友好的玩笑和关于他们傲慢的同等阶层的不那么友好的挖苦。

We didn't know how to take the hook out. It was probably barbed.

我们不知道怎么把鱼从鱼钩上取下来，因为有可能钩子上有倒钩。

His words were barbed but they were the barbs of truth.

他说的话是带刺的，但都是些带刺的大实话。