Foul
[faʊl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act that violates the rules of a sport.
(verb.) become soiled and dirty.
(verb.) make unclean; 'foul the water'.
(verb.) spot, stain, or pollute; 'The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it'.
(verb.) commit a foul; break the rules.
(verb.) hit a foul ball.
(adj.) (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines .
黛娜編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A bird.
(superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
(superl.) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
(superl.) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
(superl.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
(superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.
(superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
(superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
(superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
(v. t.) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
(v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
(v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
(v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
(v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
(v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
(n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
(n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
富兰克林校對
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Impure, nasty, squalid, dirty, polluted, filthy, unclean, soiled, tarnished, stained, sullied.[2]. Disgusting, loathsome, offensive, noisome.[3]. Base, scandalous, infamous, vile, scurvy, unfair, dishonorable, sinister, wicked, dark, abominable, detestable, disgraceful, shameful.[4]. Obscene, vulgar, coarse, low.[5]. Abusive, insulting, scurrilous, foul-mouthed.[6]. Stormy, rainy, cloudy.
校對:奥菲莉娅
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CORRUPT]
整理:莱克格斯
解釋/意思:
adj. filthy: loathsome: obscene: impure: stormy: unfair: running against: distressing pernicious: choked up entangled: (Shak.) homely ugly.—v.t. to make foul: to soil: to effect a collision.—v.i. to come into collision:—pr.p. foul′ing; pa.p. fouled.—n. act of fouling: any breach of the rules in games or contests.—adj. Foul′-faced (Shak.) having a hatefully ugly face.—n. Foul′-fish fish during the spawning season.—adv. Foul′ly.—adjs. Foul′-mouthed Foul′-spok′en addicted to the use of foul or profane language.—ns. Foul-mouthed′ness; Foul′ness; Foul′-play unfair action in any game or contest dishonest dealing generally.—Claim a foul to assert that the recognised rules have been broken and that a victory is therefore invalid; Fall foul of to come against: to assault; Make foul water used of a ship to come into such shallow water that the keel raises the mud.
n. a light woollen dress material with a glossy surface.
手打:维吉尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Of the foul German spectre--the Vampyre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Besides those which are of common observation it is used for lighting the interior of mines, caves, and the dark apartments of ships, and does not foul the air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The night was hot, and the shop, close shut and surrounded by so foul a neighbourhood, was ill-smelling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Go ahead you, and keep out in pretty open water, that I mayn't get fouled again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- A man whom he had loaded with benefits and regarded with affection had subjected him to the foulest indignity. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- That exemplary brother and sister--lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
费利西亚編輯