Stale
[steɪl] or [stel]
解释:
(verb.) urinate, of cattle and horses.
(adj.) lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; 'stale bread'; 'the beer was stale' .
录入:费尔普斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake.
(v. i.) Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.
(v. i.) Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread.
(v. i.) Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed.
(v. i.) Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common.
(v. t.) To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out.
(a.) To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle.
(v. i.) That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use.
(v. i.) A prostitute.
(v. i.) Urine, esp. that of beasts.
(v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.
(v. t.) A stalking-horse.
(v. t.) A stalemate.
(v. t.) A laughingstock; a dupe.
校对:桑福德
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Vapid, tasteless, insipid, mawkish, flat, flashy, musty, fusty, sour, not fresh.[2]. Old, decayed, faded, effete, time-worn, worn out, not new.[3]. Trite, common, hackneyed, commonplace, threadbare, not novel.
亨利录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Vapid, tasteless, threadbare, commonplace, hackneyed
ANT:Fresh,[See BLEMISH]
亚历山大校对
解释:
adj. too long kept: tainted: vapid or tasteless from age as beer: not new: worn out by age: decayed: no longer fresh trite: in athletics over-trained hence unfit as in 'gone stale.'—n. anything become stale: urine of cattle &c.: (Shak.) a whore.—v.t. to render insipid to make common.—v.i. to make water as beasts.—adv. Stale′ly.—n. Stale′ness.
n. something offered or exhibited as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose: (Spens.) a decoy a gull: (Shak.) a dupe laughing-stock.—n. Stall a thief's assistant.
n. the handle of anything a stalk.
手打:奈杰尔
例句:
- These limp ones are two I killed today at work; but as they don't die till the sun goes down they can't be very stale meat. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He hit the book a sounding blow with his open hand, and struck out of it a stronger smell of stale tobacco than ever. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- This coffee-room was a front parlour, the principal features of which were fresh sand and stale tobacco smoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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