Rot
[rɒt] or [rɑt]
解释:
(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
布鲁克整理
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Putrefy, corrupt, decompose, decay.
格拉迪斯校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Putrefaction, corruption, putrescence, mouldiness, mildew, decay
ANT:Integrity, wholesomeness, soundness, vigor, preservation, purity, healthiness,sweetness
埃德娜校对
解释:
v.i. to putrefy: to become decomposed: to become morally corrupt: to become affected with sheep-rot.—v.t. to cause to rot: to bring to corruption:—pr.p. rot′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. rot′ted.—n. decay: putrefaction: a special disease of the sheep as of the potato: a decay (called dry-rot) which attacks timber: (slang) rant bosh.—ns. Rot′-grass the soft grass: the butterwort: the penny-rot; Rot′gut bad liquor; Rot′-steep the process of steeping cottons to remove impurities.
整理:保罗
例句:
- I never did see sich tomfoolery, growled Gurt, who was enjoying himself hugely; this Baccus is all tommy rot. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- What rot you get to thinking by yourself. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The rot must become apparent for it is to be destroyed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I wish in my very soul that he who brought it about might die and rot, even if 'tis transportation to say it! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Pablo has rotted us here with inaction. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- They look, in colour and in substance, like a bundle of rank leaves of swampy growth that rotted long ago. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She was then just abreast of the rotted bride-cake. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I listened for a few moments, and in the musty rotting silence of the house believed that I could hear the murmur of their young voices. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage--it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
校对:马蒂