1[intransitiveI, transitiveT]HBDECAY to decay by a gradualnatural 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。
2rot in hell/jailMIMPto 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 septictank 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 shreddedyearly or allowed to rot and gatherdust 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 cheappaper 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 rottinggarbage 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 gorgeouscanopies 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 statelymusichall, 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 rescueoperation 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 relicsrotting away to nothing ... all in the course of a single night.• A century later the forest would be regrown, the downed treesrotted away to nothing.