提出这项法规会像捅了马蜂窝一样。

Introducing this legislation would be like opening a can of worms.

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这个过程就跟捅了马蜂窝似的：半打不同体形，不同年龄的四脚朋友都露出犬牙走到了中间来。

This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre.

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我可是捅了个大马蜂窝。

I'd poked a stick into a hornets' nest.

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