1. (用刀等锋利物)刺，戳，捅
    If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body.

    e.g. Somebody stabbed him in the stomach...
           有人朝他肚子上捅了一刀。
    e.g. Dean tried to stab him with a screwdriver...
           迪安试图用一把改锥捅他。

2. (用手指或手中的尖物)戳，捅
    If you stab something or stab at it, you push at it with your finger or with something pointed that you are holding.

    e.g. Bess stabbed a slice of cucumber...
           贝丝叉起一片黄瓜。
    e.g. Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for...
           戈德斯通翻动书页，大拇指按到他正在寻找的那个段落上。

3. 尝试;试图
    If you have a stab at something, you try to do it.

    e.g. Several tennis stars have had a stab at acting.
           好几位网球明星都尝试过从事演艺。

4. (通常指令人不快的感觉的)突发的一阵
    You can refer to a sudden, usually unpleasant feeling as a stab of that feeling.

    e.g. ...a stab of pain just above his eye...
           他眼睛上方突然的一阵疼痛
    e.g. She felt a stab of pity for him.
           她突然对他心生同情。

5. 背后捅刀子;暗地中伤
    If you say that someone has stabbed you in the back, you mean that they have done something very harmful to you when you thought that you could trust them. You can refer to an action of this kind as a stab in the back .

    e.g. She felt betrayed, as though her daughter had stabbed her in the back...
           她感到被出卖了，就像女儿在自己背后捅了一刀似的。
    e.g. He denounced the defection as a stab in the back.
           他谴责这次背叛是背后捅刀子。

6. a stab in the dark -> see dark