| 单词 | dirty |
| 释义 | dirty I. 1. a. < the stage roustabouts' dungarees were convincingly dirty > b. < put them on the dirtiest job in the camp > specifically < a tanker carrying such dirty cargo as crude oil, diesel oil, or asphalt is not subjected to this high rate of corrosion > c. of work < she did, as always quietly, complacently, the dirty work while her sisters fussed over their wardrobes > d. < a male accomplice was sitting out there playing it safe, sending the girl in to do the dirty work — Erle Stanley Gardner > < determined that the bourgeois liberals should not use them for the dirty work at the barricades and then shove them … aside — Stringfellow Barr > e. < dirty wounds > 2. a. < a mob … may lynch a Negro … and apparently enjoy the dirty business — C.C.Furnas > b. (1) < her father was a kind of dirty dog … he married a rich woman and left this kid to get along as best she could — Susan Ertz > (2) < refused to legally name the higher-ups who got the millions in dirty money — Mike Stern > c. < those who regard politics as a dirty business would do well to remember that war is a dirtier business — John Lodge > < called wire tapping a dirty business — Newsweek > d. < a dirty hockey player > < overemphasis on winning is liable to produce dirty football > e. < a teacher of jujitsu and dirty fighting to recruits > f. < it's a dirty shame you weren't given a fair chance > 3. a. < anecdotes of a type that can be called earthy but not dirty — Sidney Lovett > < Shakespeare was the dirtiest of English authors if you knew the vocabulary — D.W.Brogan > < sniggering at dirty postcards — John Masters > b. < but discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army — Time > < for years in the entertainment business “documentary” has been a dirty word — Marya Mannes > 4. < it developed into a dirty night. Fog shut down, reducing visibility to zero, and an unusually heavy tide was running — C.C.Hanks > 5. a. of color or light < he was not dirty white, as I had often found whales of the smaller size to be, but pure white — H.A.Chippendale > b. 6. a. < the two girls give me a dirty look like it was my fault or something — Ring Lardner > < this is not meant as a dirty crack at the American railroads — Richard Joseph > b. < quick to strike back at being called a dirty name > < some of the dirty epithets applied to immigrants from foreign countries > 7. printing a. of copy b. of typesetting or a proof c. of a type case 8. of an atom bomb or hydrogen bomb Synonyms: < the window so dirty you could hardly see the new houses opposite — George du Maurier > < he was dirty and bloodstained and his clothes were bedaubed with mud and weeds as though he had been in the river — Dorothy Sayers > filthy intensifies the offensive suggestions of dirty < tenements — rickety wooden structures five or six stories high, dark, ill-ventilated, and filthy, breeders of disease and nurseries of vice — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < he was constantly drunk, filthy beyond all powers of decent expression … as disreputable an old wretch as was at that time to be found in New York — Leslie Stephen > foul, the strongest term in this group, suggests revolting loathsomeness < the stagnant water looked uninviting. Over its face lay a thick mantle of green slime, from which swelled curious bladder islands of floating fatty pink. The Arabs explained that the Turks had thrown dead camels into the pool to make the water foul — T.E.Lawrence > < Van Gogh knew the paleotechnic city in its most complete gloom, the foul bedraggled gaslighted London of the seventies — Lewis Mumford > nasty may imply highly repugnant qualities, especially those repugnant to a fastidious person < the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelled fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage — R.L.Stevenson > < I wonder why he really did hide himself like that. Something nasty, I suppose; was he a leper? — G.K.Chesterton > < would they, pray, explain why instead of sharing their beds with decent women of their own class … they squandered all their virile energy on greasy slave girls and nasty Asiatic-Greek prostitutes? — Robert Graves > squalid adds to dirty the suggestions of slovenliness or neglect < magnified hovels, piled story upon story, and squalid with the grime that successive ages have left behind them — Nathaniel Hawthorne > All these terms may describe things reprehensible morally < public office in this country has become a dirty and nasty thing. Its attainment in most cases implies chicanery and deceit — M.L.Ernst > < I oughtn't to sell Max out like that. It would be utterly filthy — Dashiell Hammett > < secret murder was their object — black, foul, midnight murder — Anthony Trollope > < he has treated such malice with the stony contempt the utterances of squalid politicians and journalists deserve — New Republic > All these terms but squalid apply often to unpleasant weather. II. III. transitive verb 1. < he dirtied his new clothes in the coal cellar > 2. a. < but with Jackson the common man poured into the White House and dirtied more than the carpets … theft on a great scale appeared for the first time — Times Literary Supplement > b. < their religion took most of the rural whites, pleasures away from them, dirtying sex and the human body until it was a nasty thing — Lillian Smith > intransitive verb < soft cloths dirty easily > • - dirty one's hands |
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