tar

Word family

Related topics: Roads, Building, Tobacco

tar1 /tɑː $ tɑːr/ noun [uncountableU] → ta

1. TTRTBa black substance, thick and sticky when hot but hard when cold, used especially for making road surfaces 柏油，沥青 → coal tar

2 DFTa sticky substance that forms when tobacco burns, and that gets into the lungs of people who smoke 〔烟草的〕焦油

high tar cigarettes

高焦香烟

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tar• Rating cigarettes by tar and nicotine content, much as gasoline is rated by octane levels.• A naked man covered in tar and soot slithered by in pursuit of three young, giggling girls.• The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking.• The clean smell of pine tar rose in the air, and Sam began counting rings.• His facial scars radiating ridges pigmented with tar or carbon pictured some many-legged mutant spider.

Related topics: Building, Roads

tar2 verb (tarred, tarring) [transitiveT]

1 TBTTRto cover a surface with tar 用沥青覆盖〔表面〕

a tarred roof

涂过沥青的屋顶

2 be/get tarred with the same brush BLAMEif someone is tarred with the same brush as someone else, people think they have the same faults or have committed the same crimes, even if they have not 被认为有同样缺点，被看成一路货色

You’ve made it very clear that you think I’m tarred with the same brush as William.

你已经十分明确地表示，你认为我和威廉是一丘之貉。

3. tar and feather to cover someone in tar and feathers as a cruel unofficial punishment 给〔某人〕涂柏油粘羽毛〔一种残酷的私刑〕

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tar and feather• These spoke openly of ropes being thrown over high beams and tar and feathers brought into play.• They would tar and feather him and ride him out of the town on a rail for this.

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tar• This is not an attempt to tar all forms of Centralism with the same brush.• Kleider has been tarred by recent business scandals.• Suspected abolitionists were tarred, feathered, and run out of town; antislavery literature was burned.• Candles and tarred kindling, and spices, Carrie thought, wrinkling her nose.• Ralph even tarred the roof gutters and fixed a leak by the chimney.• But he was tarred with Estabrook's guilt.• I was tarred with the same brush, to a certain extent.

Origin tar1

Old English teoru

tar1 nountar2 verb

Chinese

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