4.criminal 罪犯 [countableC]British EnglishBrE informalSCCCRIME someone, usually a criminal, who gives information about other criminals to the police – used to show disapproval 告密者,通风报信者〔通常指向警方告发其他罪犯的人,含贬义〕SYN informer, American English stoolpigeon →supergrass
5.the grass is greener (on the other side)used to say that other places or situations seem better than yours, although they may not really be better 草是那边的绿〔用于表示别的地方或情况似乎比自己的好,虽然事实可能并非如此〕
6.not let the grass grow under your feetSPEND TIMEto not waste time or delaystarting something 不浪费时间,不耽误时间
7.put somebody out to grassinformalLEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATION to make someone leave their job because they are too old to do it effectively 使某人离职〔因某人年迈而不能有效工作〕
The cows moved slowly through the long green grass.
tall/long
I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees.
short
These mowers only work efficiently on short grass.
coarse (=consisting of thick and large pieces)
The only vegetation was a few bushes and patches of coarse grass.
damp/wet
His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell.
grass + NOUN
grass clippings/cuttings (=pieces of cut grass)
You can use your grass clippings to start your own compost pile.
grass stains (=marks on clothing caused by grass)
It's going to be difficult to get the grass stains out of these trousers.
grass seed
Now is the best time to plant grass seed.
grass vergeBritish EnglishBrE (=area of grass next to a road)
He stopped the car on the grass verge of the deserted road.
phrases
a blade of grass (=a single piece of grass)
A few blades of grass poked out of the dry earth.
Examples from the Corpus
grass• Grama grasses are what the fifty million buffalo ate.• Bulbs for naturalising in grass are usually sold in bulk, sometimes in mixtures.• I sat down in the long grass, puzzled to understand my weakness.• I wouldn't inform on you -- I'm no grass.• There was shorter grass up here, and the ground curved -.• Early next morning, before breakfast, they crossed the grass leaving a darktrail of foot prints in the dew.• Please keep off the grass.• Others were milling around on the grass to no apparentpurpose.• wildgrasses
blade of grass• But every drop that fell contained the promise of another leaf, another blossom, another blade of grass in the spring.• Similarlumps had been spread there before, and showed as bleached-out mounds through which a few blades of grass grew.• There was not a breath of windblowing, and not a leaf or blade of grassstirred.• They had stripped the lowerforest of anything resembling a leaf or blade of grass.• And when he looked at the blades of grass he saw that they were only blades of grass.• The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses.
grass2 verb [intransitiveI]
1 (also grass somebody up)British EnglishBrE informalTALK TO somebody to tell the police about a criminal’s activities 向警方告发[告密]
grass on
Burton grassed on other prisoners.
伯顿告发了其他犯人。
2.grass something ↔ overphrasal verbphr vDLGto cover land with grass 在〔地〕上覆盖草皮
Examples from the Corpus
grass over• Many a song stood still in the long grass.• The Great Plains, extending to the Texascoast, have traditionally been a mightysea of grass.• The parka in reverse from rose pink to a grass green print over a sirengown, by Ungaro. 5.• Q.. Can I plant grass in earth over an asphaltdriveway?• It was almost as if he needed grass all over his sweaty face before he could play in the outfield.• Several hundred acres of rustling, wind-blown grass swept over our feet and under scatteredoaktrees.• The tallgrass flowed over the hills.• The floodescaped, and more surged in, water over grass, grass over water.
Examples from the Corpus
grass• You grassed on us to save your own life.• Appletreesrequireplenty of potash and nitrogen, especially if the area is grassed over.• I don't trust her -- what if she grasses us up?