Tā bèi mǎfēng zhē le yīxià, téng le yī zhěng tiān.
He was stung by a hornet and the pain lasted all day.
Tips
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捅马蜂窝 (tǒng mǎfēngwō, 'to poke a hornets' nest') is a fixed metaphor for stirring up trouble — the equivalent of the English idiom. The 马 (horse) here just signals 'big', as in 马蜂 = big-sized 蜂 (bee/wasp).
