Soil
[sɒɪl] or [sɔɪl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock.
錄入:雷内--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
(n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
(n.) Land; country.
(n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
(v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
(n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
(n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
(n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
(n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
整理:彼得
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Foul, dirty, stain, pollute, sully, tarnish, defile, taint, contaminate, bedaub, begrime, besmear, bespatter, make foul.
n. [1]. Stain, blot, spot, tarnish.[2]. Mould, loam, earth, ground.[3]. Land, country.
手打:尼尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Stain, tarnish, begrime, befoul, contaminate
ANT:Purify, bleach, cleanse, absterge
琼整理
解釋/意思:
n. dirt: dung: foulness: a spot or stain: a marshy place in which a hunted boar finds refuge.—v.t. to make dirty: to stain: to manure.—v.i. to take a soil: to tarnish.—n. Soil′iness stain: foulness.—adj. Soil′less destitute of soil.—ns. Soil′-pipe an upright discharge-pipe which receives the general refuse from water-closets &c. in a building; Soil′ure (Shak.) stain: pollution.
n. the ground: the mould on the surface of the earth which nourishes plants: country.—adj. Soil′-bound attached to the soil.—n. Soil′-cap the covering of soil on the bed-rock.—adj. Soiled having soil.
v.t. to feed at the stall for the purpose of fattening.
阿玛莉亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Commercial fertilizers generally contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash in amounts varying with the requirements of the soil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For this reason, they have to depend solely upon nitrogenous compounds which are present in the soil and are soluble in water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- During years of highly successful farming, during which Hutton introduced new methods in Berwickshire, he was interested in meteorology, and in geology as related to soils. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This question between us is a question of soils and seasons, and patience and pains, Mr. Gardener. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Pure siliceous sands are very valuable for the manufacture of glass, for making mortar, filters, ameliorating dense clay soils, for making molds in founding and for many other purposes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The immense improvements and discoveries in the character of soils and fertilisers have already been alluded to. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But America, an immense territory, favoured by nature with all advantages of climate, soils, great navigable rivers, lakes, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In tunneling under the river, nearly every conceivable combination of rocks and soils were met, but for the most part the material was silt. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- His spirits had risen, and he heartily enjoyed a good slip in the moist earth under the hedgerow, which soiled his perfect summer trousers. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Photographs can be transferred and preserved for years which would have been soiled, faded, and ruined if allowed to remain on the card. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- They were much soiled, but otherwise unhurt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The sea they turned into a murderous alley and a soiled road of commerce, disputed like the dirty land of a city every inch of it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and all pronounced the effect quite easy and fine. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
錄入:温思罗普