grit
n. 砂砾, 粗砂石 vt. 覆以砂砾, 咬牙切齿地说 vi. 摩擦作声
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教材释义与例句
研磨；在…上铺砂砾，覆以砂砾；咬紧牙关
摩擦作声
释义与例句
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A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
不可数The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
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A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
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Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
不可数These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
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A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
不可数I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
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A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
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Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
习语 不可数That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
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Husked but unground oats.
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Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
grits and eggs
ham and grits
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To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
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及物We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
My teeth gritted as I heard the news.
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To cover with grit.
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To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
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With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
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