litter

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n. 垃圾, 杂乱, 轿, 担架 vt. 乱丢, 铺草, 弄乱 vi. 产仔, 乱丢垃圾

发音

US /ˈlɪt.ɚ/
CA /ˈlɪɾ.ɚ/
US /ˈlɪɾ.ɚ/

词形变化

litters 复数 litters littered littering litters 三单 littering 现在分词 littered 过去式 littered 过去分词

别名

liter litere lytter lyttre littor littour litre licter letter lictier licture litour littier littre

教材释义与例句

名词

垃圾;轿,担架;一窝(动物的幼崽);凌乱

waste paper, cans etc that people have thrown away and left on the ground in a public place

动词

乱丢;给…垫褥草;把…弄得乱七八糟

if things litter an area, there are a lot of them in that place, scattered in an untidy way

动词

产仔;乱扔废弃物

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

    不可数 可数

    Quen he had made me hale and fere

  2. 2.

    Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

    A bed, especially a pile of straw (sometimes also with blankets) used as a bed.

    可数 废旧 不可数

    Near-synonyms: pallet, straw bed, hay bed (all broadly synonymous)

  3. 3.

    Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

    Animal bedding together with its dung.

    垫料

    不可数 可数
  4. 4.

    A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

    可数 不可数

    ... In a lytter made tho full royall...

  5. 5.

    A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

    Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.

    可数 医学 不可数
  6. 6.

    A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

    Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.

    轿

    担架

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.

    废旧 不可数 可数
  8. 8.

    An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  9. 9.

    The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.

    可数 不可数

    Strongly-marked differences occasionally appear in the young of the same litter.

    The runt of the litter is the smallest or weakest of a group of puppies born together.

  10. 10.

    Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.

    不可数 可数

    Near-synonyms: garbage; see also Thesaurus:trash

    What are you doing?! There's a litter bin not three feet away.

    In the case of a simple problem such as littering, the success or failure of a solution can immediately be assessed once and for all. A successful solution is one that results in no litter being present. Assuming the solution did not involve summarily executing anyone suspected of being about to drop litter, it is unlikely to have significant second-order effects.

  11. 11.

    A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.

    可数 不可数
  12. 12.

    The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.

    枯枝落叶层

    不可数 可数

    Litter, that portion of the forest floor which is not in an advanced state of decomposition.

    Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.

  13. 13.

    Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.

    不可数 可数

    Change the cat litter fer chrissakes. This place reeks.

v.
  1. 1.

    To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

    乱丢垃圾

    不及物

    By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.

  2. 2.

    To scatter carelessly about.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

    及物

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries A single written sheet of paper was on the table near her—but there were more than a hundred others, torn across, littering the floor.

  4. 4.

    To give birth to, in the manner of animals.

    产仔

    及物
  5. 5.

    To produce a litter of young.

    不及物
  6. 6.

    To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

    及物
  7. 7.

    To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

    不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    comparative form of lit: more lit

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词源

From Middle English litere, lytere, etc., from Anglo-Norman litere, litiere, etc., from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding; blankets”), from Latin lectus (“bed; couch”) + -āria (“forming related nouns”), from Proto-Italic *lektos (“[thing] lain upon”), from *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with French lit and litière.

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