荊ging1棘gik1

English

1. thistles and thorns
2. brambles
3. thorny undergrowth
4. thorns; figuratively, difficultiesunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 矮樹嘅尖刺；比喻困難unreviewed?

Examples

• 若火燃起，點燃荊棘叢，燒及禾稼堆垛或田間立穗，則點火之人須賠償損失。

  If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.

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• unreviewed?

  荊棘滿途

  hardship all along