rot
n. 腐爛,腐朽
vt.& vi. (使)腐爛,(使)腐朽
When food, wood, or another substance rots, or when something rots it, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed.
If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos...
如果我們不立刻把糧食卸下來,它們就會在筒倉裡開始腐爛。
Sugary canned drinks rot your teeth.
罐裝的甜飲料會腐蝕牙齒。
If there is rot in something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart.
Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor...
調查發現一層地下的橫樑大面積腐爛。
Neither the timber frame nor metal chassis were protected against rot.
木構架和金屬底盤都沒有采取防腐措施。
You can use the rot to refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time when the rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse.
In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time...
很多學校的情況正開始變得越來越糟,教學水平一路下滑。
The country's leaders are unwilling to take unpopular measures to stop the rot.
該國領導人不願採取不受歡迎的措施來阻止形勢惡化。
If you say that someone is being left to rot in a particular place, especially in a prison, you mean that they are being left there and their physical and mental condition is being allowed to get worse and worse.
Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot on the dole.
大多數政府就讓那些長期失業的人領著救濟金頹廢度日。
If you say that what someone is saying is rot, you mean that they are saying things that are untrue or stupid.
What a load of pompous, pseudo-intellectual rot...
真是自命不凡的偽知識分子的一派胡言!
You do talk rot!
你胡扯!
1. decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
2. (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
3. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
1. break down;
2. waste away;
rot, decay, decompose
這些動詞均有"爛,腐爛"之意。
Temples and statues decay ( rot ), but books survive.
對於偉大的思想來說,時間是無關重要的.
There's dry rot in the floor.
地板已經朽了.
If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be away.
如果腐爛程度很小, 則可以將壞的部分砍掉.
He was thrown into prison and left to rot.
他被關進監牢任其苟延殘喘.
All three reasons conspired so that by the late 1970 s cybernetics had died of dry rot.
以上三種原因一致行動,以致於到了二十世紀七十年代末,控制論的就此枯萎消亡.