rots

英 [rɒts]

美 [rɑːts]

v.  (使)腐烂，腐败变质
n.  腐烂; 腐败变质; 形势恶化; 废话; 胡说
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柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)腐烂;(使)腐败;(使)变质
  When food, wood, or another substancerots, or when somethingrotsit, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed.
  1. If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos...
     如果我们不立刻把粮食卸下来，它们就会在筒仓里开始腐烂。
  2. Sugary canned drinks rot your teeth.
     罐装的甜饮料会腐蚀牙齿。
  3. ...the smell of rotting fish.
     鱼变质的气味
• N-UNCOUNT （尤指木制品的）腐烂，腐败，腐朽
  If there isrotin something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart.
  1. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor...
     调查发现一层地下的横梁大面积腐烂。
  2. Neither the timber frame nor metal chassis were protected against rot.
     木构架和金属底盘都没有采取防腐措施。
• N-SING （逐步的）恶化，衰败
  You can usethe rotto refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time whenthe rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse.
  1. In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time...
     很多学校的情况正开始变得越来越糟，教学水平一路下滑。
  2. The country's leaders are unwilling to take unpopular measures to stop the rot.
     该国领导人不愿采取不受欢迎的措施来阻止形势恶化。
• VERB (尤指人在狱中)身心状况越来越糟，萎靡不振，颓废下去
  If you say that someone is being left torotin 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.
  1. Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot on the dole.
     大多数政府就让那些长期失业的人领着救济金颓废度日。
• N-UNCOUNT 胡说八道;胡扯;蠢话
  If you say that what someone is saying isrot, you mean that they are saying things that are untrue or stupid.
  1. What a load of pompous, pseudo-intellectual rot...
     真是自命不凡的伪知识分子的一派胡言！
  2. You do talk rot!
     你胡扯！
• See also:dry rot

双语例句

• The vegetable rots away easily in summer.
  夏天里蔬菜容易腐烂。
• The body rots, melts into slime.
  尸体腐烂，分解在烂泥里。
• As a landfill rots away, it can be re-filled.
  在垃圾腐烂分解后，填埋场可以重新用于填埋垃圾。
• An important group of fungi attacks the roots, stalks, and ears, causing rots that reduce yield and damage grain quality.
  一组重要的真菌侵害玉米的根，茎和穗，导致产量减少和颗粒质量。
• Rubbish such as glass, iron and plastic rots away over a long period of time.
  像玻璃、铁和塑料这样的垃圾要好长时间才会烂掉。
• Without a good family, an individual rots away inside like a corpse without innards.
  没有一个美好的家庭，一个人的心里就如同行尸走肉般腐烂。
• In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid.
  同时，所有的吃进的食物腐烂并发酵，转化为酸。
• In autumn, edible fruit is so plentiful that it rots on the vine.
  秋天，可以吃的果实多的摘不完，烂在藤上。
• You can't have a being that's both God and flesh and blood because flesh and blood rots and dies, and goes away.
  你不能认为一种存在既是神又是有血有肉的，因为血肉会腐烂，会死亡，会消逝。
• Nobody gives a thought to how the apple rots?
  又有谁会替我们想想为什么苹果会变烂。