rot

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rot1 /rɒt $ rɑːt/ verb (rotted, rotting)

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]HBDECAY to decay by a gradual natural process, or to make something do this （使）腐败，（使）腐烂

Candy will rot your teeth.

吃糖会腐蚀牙齿。

The trees were cut and left to rot.

树被砍伐后任其腐烂。

rot away

All the woodwork was rotting away.

木结构部分都在腐烂。

2 rot in hell/jail MIMPto suffer or be punished for a long time – used especially when you are angry with someone 烂在地狱里/监狱里〔尤用于表示对某人生气〕

I hope the people who did this rot in hell.

我希望做这件事的人不得好死。

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rot in hell/jail• As far as they're concerned we could rot in jail.• I just hope the people who did this rot in hell.• Lutz gon na rot in hell.• Let them rot in hell first!

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rot• Everywhere, it was like an over-flowing septic tank or something rotting.• If water gets inside the woodwork, it causes it to rot.• Bowman continues: During the monsoon, everything would rot.• Millions of these books are shredded yearly or allowed to rot and gather dust in purgatorial existence.• His body was left to rot as a warning to others who might be tempted to stray from those paths of righteousness.• Anything written with biro on cheap paper will quickly rot away creating yet more work for the conservators.• The roof had fallen in and the floor had completely rotted away.• Or, you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down.• The apartment is dirtier still, the air filled with the stench of rotting garbage and diapers hours overdue to be changed.• If you leave any water in the bottom of the boat, it'll slowly rot it away.• Many of the tomatoes had rotted on their stems.• The gorgeous canopies have rotted, the bamboo supports have snapped.• Bedtime drinks aimed at helping children to sleep may be rotting their teeth.• In some countries food is left to rot, while in others people are dying from hunger.• Moisture can rot your house's foundation.

rot away• Outside the stately music hall, two-story white pillars are quietly rotting away.• She would rage and scorn, and hold me close for a minute, and promise to leave him to rot away.• Anything written with biro on cheap paper will quickly rot away creating yet more work for the conservators.• All this would have rotted away had the rescue operation not swung into action.• It would be absurd to rot away in a building that had no front door.• Lack of self-knowledge is like rotting away in the maze with the blindfold on.• All the same ... I could hardly imagine the relics rotting away to nothing ... all in the course of a single night.• A century later the forest would be regrown, the downed trees rotted away to nothing.

Related topics: Biology

rot2 noun

1 [uncountableU]HBDECAY the natural process of decaying, or the part of something that has decayed 腐败，腐烂；腐烂部分

the smell of rot

腐烂的气味

wood that is soft with rot

腐烂变软的木头

→ dry rot

2 [singular, uncountableU] a state in which something becomes bad or does not work as well as it should 腐化，堕落

He criticized the talk shows as ‘cultural rot’.

他批评这些清谈节目是“文化垃圾”。

stop the rot British EnglishBrE (=stop a bad situation getting worse) 阻止不良情况恶化

The team has enough good players to stop the rot.

这支球队有不少优秀球员，足以止住颓势。

the rot set in British EnglishBrE (=a situation started to get worse) 衰败开始

It was after he left the company that the rot set in.

公司是在他离开之后开始走下坡路的。

3 [uncountableU] British EnglishBrE old-fashionedUNTRUE nonsense 废话，愚蠢的话

You do talk rot!

你尽说蠢话！

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rot• Damp must not be allowed to enter as rot can quickly result.• They went through all that boring rot about the war again.• They had also done something terrible to the boiler, and discovered dry rot in the airing-cupboard.• Economic specialists hope to guide the country out of its economic rot.• To me it held overtones of rot and decomposition, perhaps imaginary because of my worries about the condition of the raft.• Joe recommended that everyone thoroughly dried and massaged their feet before climbing into a sleeping bag or they risked skin rot.• In all the circumstances some rot of some kind was almost inevitable in a good proportion of gliders.• As far as Greenpeace is concerned - unless the rot is stopped now rivers like the Severn are doomed to slow death by poisoning.• Above all the drift to a self-seeking, self-satisfying, self-fulfilling approach to relationships is where the rot is really setting in.• The wood was soft with rot.

the rot set in• We wormed and wriggled his way through to touch down and the rot set in.

Origin rot1

Old English rotian

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