| 单词 | rusty |
| 释义 | rusty (rʌsti ) Word forms: rustier , rustiest 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 A rusty metal object such as a car or a machine is covered with rust, which is a brown substance that forms on iron or steel when it comes into contact with water. We spent years travelling around in a rusty old van. ...a rusty iron gate. Synonyms: corroded, rusted, oxidized, rust-covered 2. adjective If a skill that you have or your knowledge of something is rusty, it is not as good as it used to be, because you have not used it for a long time. ...skills which have gone rusty since the previous winter. You may be a little rusty, but past experience and teaching skills won't have been lost. 3. adjective Rusty is sometimes used to describe things that are reddish-brown in colour. Her hair was rusty brown. Synonyms: reddish-brown, chestnut, reddish, russet Collocations: rusty tin Knowing my interest in food, in the mid-1960s a friend gave me a rusty tin of rattle snake, 'canned in 1947'. Times, Sunday Times Back in my day, we used to play with rusty tin cans, and we liked it. Globe and Mail There's no sauna, just a few tools and some rusty tins. Times, Sunday Times Found materials (seed pods, rusty tins) were in artworks and installations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 生锈的 Japanese: さびた |
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