sodden

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a. 浑身湿透的, 饱含的, (因沉湎于酒而)迷糊的 vt. 拿水浸, 使变呆 vi. 被浸湿

发音

UK /ˈsɒ.dən/
AU
US /ˈsɑ.dən/

词形变化

soddened soddening soddens 三单 soddens soddening 现在分词 soddened 过去式 soddened 过去分词 more sodden 比较级 most sodden 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To drench, soak or saturate.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To become soaked.

    不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.

    A miraculous desert rain. We slog, dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”

  2. 2.

    Boiled.

    古体
  3. 3.

    Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.

    比喻

    1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]

  4. 4.

    Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).

    比喻

    1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445, Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

soppy

近义相关 1

wet

词源

From Middle English sodden, soden, from Old English soden, ġesoden, from Proto-Germanic *sudanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *seuþaną (“to seethe; boil”). Cognate with West Frisian sean, Dutch gezoden (“seethed, boiled”) (related to Dutch zode (“swampy land”)), Low German saden, söddt, German gesotten, Swedish sjuden, Icelandic soðinn. More at seethe.

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