rot

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n. 腐烂, 腐蚀, 败坏 vi. 腐烂, 烂, 堕落, 憔悴 vt. 使腐烂, 使腐朽, 使堕落

发音

UK /ɹɒt/
US /ɹɑt/
UK /ɹɔt/
AU /ɹɔt/
NZ /ɹɔt/
其它 /ɹɔt/
SCOT /ɾɔt/

词形变化

rots 复数 rots rots 三单 rotted rottest rotteth rotting rotting 现在分词 rotted 过去式 rotted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

腐烂;腐败;腐坏

the natural process of decaying, or the part of something that has decayed

动词

腐烂;腐败;堕落

to decay by a gradual natural process, or to make something do this

动词

使腐烂;使腐朽;使堕落

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

    腐病

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Verbal nonsense.

    不可数 可数

    You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.

  3. 3.

    The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    Decaying matter.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

    腐化

    腐坏

    腐烂

    不及物

    The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.

  2. 2.

    To decline in function or utility.

    不及物

    Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!

  3. 3.

    To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.

    及物/不及物
  4. 4.

    To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

    及物

    to rot vegetable fiber

  5. 5.

    To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).

    比喻 不及物

    to rot in prison

    to rot in Hell

    If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...

  6. 6.

    To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

    及物
  7. 7.

    To talk nonsense.

    过时 俚语
  8. 8.

    Damn; blast.

    俚语 及物

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "Oh rot yer!" exclaimed Fank, with a sudden flare of passion that at least carried with it the dignity of a genuine emotion; "I've had just abart enough of you and your blinkin' game, Toady Joolby. Here, I'd sooner smash the bloody thing, straight, than be such a ruddy mug as to swallow any of your blahsted promises […] "

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词源

Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).

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