wet
n. 湿气, 潮湿, 水分, 雨天 a. 湿的, 潮的, 搞错的, 下雨的, 反对禁酒的 vi. 变湿 vt. 使...湿
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教材释义与例句
雨天；湿气
the rain
弄湿
to make something wet
[气象][物] 潮湿的；有雨的
covered in or full of water or another liquid
释义与例句
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Liquid or moisture.
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Rainy weather.
可数 不可数Don't go out in the wet.
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Rainy season. (often capitalized)
澳大利亚 可数 不可数Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'the Wet') that may last from December to April […] . The Wet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.
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A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
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An alcoholic drink.
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One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
美国 非正式 可数 不可数The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
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A tyre for use in wet weather.
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A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
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Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
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To cover or impregnate with liquid.
濡湿
弄湿
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To make or become wet.
淋湿
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To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
及物Johnny wets the bed several times a week.
She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.
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To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
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To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
非正式 及物to wet the baby’s head
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To kill or seriously injure.
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Misspelling of whet.
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Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
水垮垮
Water is wet.
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Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
湿
潮湿
澹
I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.
The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.
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Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.
The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.
But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.
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Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
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Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
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Of weather or a time period: rainy.
有雨的
It’s going to be wet tomorrow.
1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32, Summer drouth, or singed aire Never scorch thy tresses faire, Nor wet Octobers torrent flood Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,
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Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
航空 商务 工程This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.
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Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
俚语That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.
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Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
俚语 粗俗He got me all wet.
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Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
俚语I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness.
Don’t be so wet.
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Permitting alcoholic beverages.
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Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
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Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
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Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
化学the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed
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Involving assassination or "wet work".
委婉 俚语a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff
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Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
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Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
非正式 过时 废旧1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661. The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.
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With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
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From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water). Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).
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