Mud
[mʌd]
解释:
(noun.) slanderous remarks or charges.
(noun.) water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
(verb.) plaster with mud.
录入:弗农--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
(v. t.) To bury in mud.
(v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.
录入:伦纳德
同义词及近义词：
n. Mire.
校对:普拉特
解释:
n. wet soft earth.—v.t. to bury in mud: to dirty: to stir the sediment in as in liquors; to bury in mud.—v.i. to go under the mud like the eel.—ns. Mud′-bath a kind of mud connected with some mineral springs into which the patient plunges himself; Mud′-boat -scow a boat for carrying away the mud dredged from a river &c.; Mud′-cone a mud-volcano.—adv. Mud′dily.—n. Mud′diness.—adj. Mud′dy foul with mud: containing mud: covered with mud: confused: stupid.—v.t. to dirty: to render dull:—pa.t. and pa.p. mud′died.—adjs. Mud′dy-head′ed having a muddy or dull head or understanding; Mud′dy-mett′led (Shak.) dull-spirited: spiritless.—ns. Mud′-fish a fish which burrows in the mud; Mud′-flat a muddy strip of shore submerged at high tide; Mud′-guard the dash-board of a carriage; Mud′-hole a place full of mud: an orifice in the bottom of a boiler where the sediment is collected; Mud′-lark a man who cleans public sewers or who picks up a living along the banks of tidal rivers: a street-arab; Mud′-wall a wall composed of mud or one in which mud is used in place of mortar: the bee-eater.
校对:奥菲莉娅
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances in family circles. To see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend or employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops and unsatisfactory gains from stock. To see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed. To scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies.
校对:南森
例句:
- At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the mud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The wind drove down the rain and everywhere there was standing water and mud. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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