soil

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #4052 ★★★☆☆

n. 土壤, 土地, 国家, 国土, 温床, 污物, 粪便, 水池 vt. 弄脏, 污辱 vi. 变脏

发音

US /sɔɪl/

词形变化

soils 复数 soils 三单 soiling 现在分词 soiled 过去式 soiled 过去分词

别名

soyl

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

    泥土

    土壤

    不可数 可数

    We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.

  2. 2.

    The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.

    不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

    不可数 可数
  4. 4.

    Country or territory.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    That which soils or pollutes; a stain.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    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.

    可数 不可数
  7. 7.

    Dung; compost; manure.

    可数 不可数

    night soil

  8. 1.

    Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.

    委婉 不可数
  9. 2.

    A bag containing soiled items.

    可数 医学
  10. 1.

    A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.

v. B1
  1. 1.

    To make dirty.

    弄脏

    及物
  2. 2.

    To become dirty or soiled.

    不及物

    Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.

  3. 3.

    To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

    比喻 及物
  4. 4.

    To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

    The child was so scared she soiled herself.

  5. 5.

    To make invalid, to ruin.

  6. 6.

    To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

  7. 1.

    To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.

    to soil a horse

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English soile, soyle, sule (“ground, earth”), partly from Anglo-Norman soyl (“bottom, ground, pavement”), from Latin solium (“seat, chair; throne”), mistaken for Latin solum (“ground, foundation, earth, sole of the foot”); and partly from Old English sol (“mud, mire, wet sand”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Middle Low German söle (“dirt, mud”), Middle Dutch sol (“dirt, filth”), Middle High German sol, söl (“dirt, mud, mire”), Danish søle (“mud, muck”). Compare French seuil (“level; threshold”) and sol (“soil, earth; ground”). See also sole, soal, solum. For the sole and soil relation, compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).

来源:wiktionary