| 单词 | grease |
| 释义 | grease (griːs ) Word forms: greases , greasing , greased 1. uncountable noun Grease is a thick, oily substance which is put on the moving parts of cars and other machines in order to make them work smoothly. ...grease-stained hands. 2. verb If you grease a part of a car, machine, or device, you put grease on it in order to make it work smoothly. I greased front and rear hubs and adjusted the brakes. [VERB noun] 3. uncountable noun Grease is an oily substance that is produced by your skin. His hair is thick with grease. 4. uncountable noun Grease is animal fat that is produced by cooking meat. You can use grease for cooking. He could smell the bacon grease. 5. verb If you grease a dish, you put a small amount of fat or oil around the inside of it in order to prevent food sticking to it during cooking. Grease two sturdy baking sheets and heat the oven to 400 degrees. [VERB noun] Place the frozen rolls on a greased baking tray. [VERB-ed] 6. See also elbow grease Idioms: elbow grease the energy and strength you need for doing physical work such as cleaning something Plenty of elbow grease soon moves all the dirt. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers grease someone's palm to give money to an official in order to gain an unfair advantage over other people or in order to get something that you want Files do not move in government offices unless you grease the palms of officials. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: grease the wheels He presents vivid portraits of the fixers who grease the wheels and allow this multibillion-pound business to churn the petrodollars into numbered bank accounts. Times, Sunday Times He will grease the wheels for transfer deals to be finalised. Times, Sunday Times Never has it been more profitable to grease the wheels of business by illicit means. Times, Sunday Times Only by exposing the behind-thescenes practices that grease the wheels of party funding, as this newspaper has done, can pressure be applied for genuine change. Times, Sunday Times In 2018, selling clubs contributed £118m - 28 per cent of the total £420m given to agents for greasing the wheels of deals. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 油脂, 给…加润滑油 Japanese: 獣脂, 油を塗る |
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