thorn in the flesh

基本解释

The Castro regime is a thorn in the flesh; but it is not adaggerin the heart.
卡斯特罗政权是一根肉中刺，然而还不是刺在心上的一把刀。
There is not one of his characters who does not have that thorn in the flesh, who does not aggravate it or seek a remedy for it in sensation or immortality.[24]
他笔下的人物没有一个不是肉中带着这根刺，不去刺激它，也没有一个人不是在情感和永生中寻求解决之法。
The most comforting of David's psalms were pressed out by suffering; and if Paul had not had his thorn in the flesh we had missed much of that tenderness which quivers in so many of his letters.
戴维的诗篇中最能安慰人的几篇，乃是在苦难中压出来的；如果保罗没有一根刺加在他肉体上，在他许多的书信上一定会失去许多温柔！

Mr Hachani was certainly a thorn in the regime's flesh.
ECONOMIST: Abdelkader Hachani