2wash yourself 洗澡 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]WASH to clean your body with soap and water 洗澡;洗〔身体部位〕
Amy washed and went to bed.
埃米洗过澡就去睡觉了。
She had a hot bath and washed her hair.
她洗了个热水澡并洗了头。
I’m just going to wash my hands.
我刚准备洗手。
wash yourself 洗澡
When a cat has finished eating, it often washes itself.
猫吃完东西后,常会把自己舔干净。
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In everyday English, people usually say that someone has a wash (BrE) or washes up (AmE) rather than washes. 在日常英语中,人们一般说 have a wash【英】或 wash up【美】,而不说 wash。
3flow 流动 [intransitiveI, transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]POUR if a river, sea etc washes somewhere, or if something carried by the river or sea is washed somewhere, it flows or moves there 冲击,冲刷;冲向
The waves washed against the shore.
海浪冲刷着海岸。
The sea washed over her.
海水冲过来淹没了她。
The young man was washed overboard (=pushed from a boat into the sea by the force of the water) in the storm.
暴风雨中,那个年轻人被冲下船掉进海里。
The body was washed ashore (=brought to the shore by waves).
尸体被冲上岸。
4something doesn’t/won’t wash (with somebody)spokenBELIEVE used to say that you do not believe or accept someone’s explanation, reason, attitude etc 不相信;不接受〔某人的解释、理由、态度等〕
I’m sorry but all his charm just doesn’t wash with me.
对不起,他那些魅力打动不了我。
5wash your hands of somethingRESPONSIBLEto refuse to be responsible for something anymore 不愿再管[不再过问]某事
I’ve washed my hands of the whole affair.
我已经完全不过问此事了。
Examples from the Corpus
wash your hands of something• Did you feel like washing your hands of me again?• The sooner it washes its hands of Mr Haider the better.• Imagine Delwyn Pepper up so in New York, washing his hands of our business.• Chun was not able to wash his hands of the Kwangju massacre, which dogged him throughout his eight-year rule.• Dunbar has already washed his hands of the project.• In the summer of 1988, King Hussein washed his hands of the territories.• We can not wash our hands of this.• Let us wash our hands of those who do not care for us.• I wash my hands of you.
6.wash your mouth out!spoken old-fashionedSTOP DOING something used to tell someone who has just sworn or said something rude that they should not have spoken that way 嘴巴干净点!〔用于告诫说了脏话的人〕
7wash wellWASHto be easy to clean using soap and water 好洗,容易洗干净
Silk doesn’t wash well.
丝绸不好洗。
Examples from the Corpus
wash well• Silk doesn't wash well.• This one is knitted in a linen-mix yarn which washes well and feels especially soft to touch.• Drain the anchovies and wash well to remove the oil from the surface.
→ wash/air your dirty linen/laundry (in public)at dirty1(7)
nTHESAURUS
wash to clean something with soap and water
Our car needs washing.
Make sure that you wash your hands.
do the washingBritish EnglishBrE, do the laundryAmerican EnglishAmE to wash clothes that need to be washed
Did you do the laundry this morning?
I do the washing on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
do the washing upBritish EnglishBrE (also wash upBritish EnglishBrE), do the dishesAmerican EnglishAmE to wash all the cups, plates, knives etc that you have used during a meal
If you do the cooking tonight, I’ll do the washing up.
Who’s going to do the dishes?
cleanse formal to make something completely clean, especially using a specialsubstance
Carefully cleanse the cut to get rid of any grit or dirt.
rinse to wash something with water in order to remove soap or dirt
I’ll just rinse the lettuce under the tap.
scrub to make something very clean, using a stiffbrush and water, or soap and water
Lou was on her knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor.
mop to wash a floor with a wetmop (=special stick with thick threads on the end)
A cleaner mopped the floor between the beds.
PHRASAL VERBS
8wash something ↔ awayphrasal verbphr v
a)if water washes something away, it carries it away with great force 冲掉,冲走
Floods in Bangladesh have washed hundreds of homes away.
wash away• After that, the town continued to sink until springfloods finally washed it away.• The white space is pouring, would wash you away.• What we both need is a good strong cup of tea to wash it away.• Has this exorcismwashed you away as well?• Commonsense, reason, tell her to wash this away down the wash bowl, but thriftforbids.• I found that my Winsor & Newton ArtMaskingFluid took off the originalwash when rubbed away, leaving white paper.• We must flush out the bad seed and eliminate it, wash it away, remove it from among us.• The green will eventually go brown or black, after which you can wash it away with a high pressurehose.
9wash something ↔ downphrasal verbphr v
a)DHCWASHto clean something large using a lot of water 用大量水冲洗〔大件物体〕
wash with• Shaffer says he likes to wash it all down with a beer.• Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberrysauce and wash it down with a Bordeauxred.• Then wash them both down with a few changes of domestic hypochlorite bleachdilutedaccording to the instructions on the bottlelabel.• Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets, washing each down with a mouthful of water.• She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate, washing them down with a small amount of water.• I munched secretively, washing my food down with a swallow, of coffee.• I ate rolls and an omelette and washed them down with coffee.• One tumour had the Minister of Health washing thern down with the blood of one of his former colleagues.
10wash offphrasal verbphr v
a)DHCWASH wash something ↔ off to cleandirt, dust etc from the surface of something with water 洗掉[冲去]某物
b)REMOVEif a substancewashes off, you can remove it from the surface of something by washing 〔某物〕能被洗掉
Will this paint wash off?
这油漆能洗掉吗?
11wash outphrasal verbphr v
a)DHCWASH wash something ↔ out to wash the inside of something quickly 迅速洗净〔某物的内部〕
wash out• A lot of hairdyes are designed to wash out after three or four washes.• I'll just go and wash out these glasses.• When the bottle is empty, wash it out thoroughly before refilling.
wash• Harry went upstairs to wash.• My jeans need to be washed.• When we moved in, we spent a whole day washing all the floors and paintwork.• I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time.• I seem to spend all my time washing and ironing these days.• I just need to wash before dinner.• She was washing her hair when the phonerang.• The women undressed and washed her, thickening the shadows with prayer.• He rolled, sprang on to his feet, and started to wash himself.• The spinach leaves should be washed in cold water.• Use a softbristle brush to loosen the grime and if possible a sprayer to wash it all off.• In the bathroom, I washed myself.• You ought to wash that sweater by hand.• I really must wash the car this weekend.• Could you wash this shirt for me?• You could go over and see it, like a big whalewashed up on the shore.• You were only allowed to wash your clothes once a week.• Wash your face and brush your teeth.• Have you boyswashed your hands yet?
wash the dishes• Aunt Em was washing the dishes.• Richard could play outside a while longer, while Cissie and Beth washed the dishes.• She even let the school-leavers who washed the dishes and cleared the tables look straight into her eyes.• The man will more often take out the garbage, wash the dishes, and do other chores around the house.• I washed the dishes and took a Brillo pad to the stove.• Afterwards, she helped Penelope wash the dishes, commenting that she had been a dishwasher also at one time.• Our task will be to wash the dishes later and I warn you there will be plenty.• Deborah and I washed the dishes, then sat beside each other at the kitchen table, our legs almost touching.
wash yourself• He rolled, sprang on to his feet, and started to wash himself.• Here we crouched, ankle-deep in the wavelets, to wash ourselves or to go to the lavatory.• In the bathroom, I washed myself.• She washed herself and dressed herself and collected the bottles and took them down to the bin.• Rex, unperturbed, quickly stripped off naked to wash himself and his clothes in the deluge of fresh water.• He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink.• The message has to be reinforced all the time until the patient can wash himself properly and confidently, without losing concentration.
washed ashore• All these bits and pieces washed ashore.• State officials also reported a dead sea turtle had washed ashore.• Only two men washed ashorealive.• Hapless, hopelessly clumsy Gilligan is washed ashore along with the competent, self-assuredskipper.• Rubbish is discarded; that from boats is washed ashore and there is greater disturbance of the animal life.• Such was the rorqual whale, 64 feet long with a 12 foot tail, washed ashore in 1879.• Battered by 50 knotwinds and seven-metre seas, the Ambrosia was later washed ashore in Aberdeenshire.• His body was washed ashore on what was to become Omaha Beach.
a)used to tell someone not to worry about a problem because it will be solved in the future 总会有办法的,问题总会解决的〔用于叫某人不要担心〕
b)used to say that the truth about something will be known in the end 总会水落石出,总会真相大白
Examples from the Corpus
wash• The floor needs a wash.• I painted such areas first and then worked around and/or over with dilutedwashes.• an anti-bacterial face wash• He looks as if he could do with a good wash.• Water would shoot down the mountainsides and down the washes at 10-20 times the volume of a typicalstorm.• It is built up in very thin washes.
have ... wash• I had driven to Gondal, the nearesttown, to make phone calls and have a wash.• I have to wash your hair.• Here, the continuing water diuresis may have washed out the medullary concentration gradient and led to a protracted concentratingdefect.• Sitting in a belt of farms, the community does not have pristine desert washes, said Cynthia Seelhammer, town manager.• I should have washed before I put my dress on, you know.• They have washed up on a shinglestrand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.• The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered.• The tightsmell of men who have not washed their bodies or known clean clothes.