单词 | dirt |
释义 | dirt I. 1. a. < warm steamy knobbles of sheep dirt getting crushed between my toes — Janet Frame > b. < in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt — Jane Austen > c. < the crew gutted the catch and hosed the dirt through the scuppers > especially < how to remove … dirt consisting of dust, pollen, and sooty particles — Pliotron > < under its accumulated rust and dirt of five centuries — G.G.Coulton > d. < a chance to wash the dirt off his face > < guaranteed to remove dirt from upholstery > e. archaic < is yellow dirt the passion of thy life? — Alexander Pope > f. < he's got beautiful manners. Doesn't chuck the stuff at you as if you were dirt like young Willis — Dorothy Sayers > g. 2. a. (1) < tons of rock and dirt slid into the canal > < replacing dirt roads with macadam > (2) < alarmed at the first sound we hit the dirt > b. < a rare good little farm; a sound bit of dirt that is, sir — Adrian Bell > c. < mining gold by means of dirt washing > d. (1) (2) e. dialect England 3. a. < ignorance and dirt are not necessary concomitants of poverty > b. < the dirt of jealousy > < there's more dirt to be uncovered at the capital > c. < this leaves a rather amorphous concept of what obscenity may be … . Its one essential quality is dirt for dirts sake — Curtis Bok > < a quite mistaken belief that to make his reader smell dirt is realism — H.J.Laski > d. < a writer as much interested in writing dirt as in reporting the news > e. < he thought … investigations should be started only after the most careful consideration and when there was real prospect of turning up dirt — Vance Johnson > f. < wanting to do him dirt, she sent his wife a poison-pen letter > 4. II. 1. archaic < don't dog's-ear nor dirt them — R.H.Barham > 2. |
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