grubby

英 ['grʌbɪ] 美['ɡrʌbi]
  • adj. 肮脏的;生蛆的;卑鄙的;矮小的

低频词畅通词汇

词态变化


比较级: grubbier;最高级: grubbiest;名词: grubbiness;

英英释意


1. small sculpin of the coast of New England

英文词源


grubby (adj.)
"dirty," by 1845, from grub (n.) in a sense of "dirty child" (who presumably got that way from digging in earth) + -y (2). Earlier it was used in a sense of "stunted, dwarfish" (1610s) and "infested with grubs" (1725). Related: Grubbily; grubbiness.

实用场景例句


a grubby scandal
丑闻

牛津词典

grubby hands/clothes
脏手 / 衣服

牛津词典

...the grubby business of politics.
肮脏的政治活动

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...kids with grubby faces.
脸上脏兮兮的孩子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

His white coat was grubby and stained.
他的白色外套污迹斑斑,简直脏透了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Yet in recent years graduates have rarely aspired to such a grubby job as teaching.
然而近几年几乎没有毕业生立志做老师,他们认为这个职业不体面.

期刊摘选

In another rested a manger scene produced from cardboard and poster paints by chubby grubby, hands.
教室的另—角是—个涂着海报油彩由纸板制成的马槽,这出自孩子们那胖乎乎 、 脏兮兮的小手.

期刊摘选

Look at your grubby hands!
看你那双脏手!

辞典例句

I'm not keen on this new metaphor, partly because I'm a grubby Brit.
我对这种新的隐喻并不热衷, 在一定程度上是因为我是个不修边幅的英国人.

期刊摘选

Prostitution may be a grubby business, but it's not the government's.
卖淫也许是个污秽的行当, 但却不关政府的事.

期刊摘选

Instead, bug your brood to give those grubby forearms a good scrubbing.
相反为了除去细菌, 好好擦洗你那脏兮兮的前臂吧!

期刊摘选

Look at this old grubby filthy and selfish doggie!
看看这个卑鄙下流邋遢自私的老东西!

电影对白

Those grubby urchins ran to me and asked for candy.
那群邋遢的小淘气们向我跑过来要糖果.

期刊摘选

Stringy blonde hair, in need of combing, spilled over a grubby pillow.
没有梳理的浓密的金色头发披落在一个污秽的枕头上.

辞典例句

Ah, I wondered how your clothes had got so grubby. Did you win?
哦, 我奇怪呢,你的衣服怎么这么脏. 那你赢了 吗 ?

期刊摘选

Spitting in a handkerchief and then rubbing it on your face because you're grubby.
90在手绢上吐唾沫来擦你的脸,因为你是肮脏的.

期刊摘选

His white coat was grubby and stained.
他的白色外套污迹斑斑,简直脏透了。

柯林斯例句

They knock around on weekends in grubby sweaters and pants.
他们周末穿着邋遢的毛衫和裤子到处闲逛。

柯林斯例句

I pressed a dime into his grubby mitt.
我把一个十分硬币塞进他脏兮兮的手里。

柯林斯例句