rust
英[r?st]
美[r?st]
- n. 銹；生銹；[植保] 銹病
- vt. 使生銹；腐蝕
- vi. 生銹；成鐵銹色；變遲鈍
- n. (Rust)人名；(英)拉斯特；(德、捷、瑞典)魯斯特；(法)呂斯特
詞態變化
復數:?rusts;第三人稱單數:?rusts;過去式:?rusted;過去分詞:?rusted;現在分詞:?rusting;形容詞:?rusted;
助記提示
1. red => rust.
2. => "red oxide of iron".
中文詞源
rust 生銹，鐵銹
來自古英語 rust,銹，銹蝕，來自 PIE*reudh,紅色的，來自 PIE*reudh,紅色的，詞源同 red,russet.
英文詞源
- rust
- rust: [OE] Etymologically, rust means ‘reddened’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *reudh- ‘red’ (source also of English red). This produced a prehistoric Germanic noun which has evolved into German and Swedish rost, Dutch roest, and English and Danish rust.
=> red - rust (v.)
- early 13c., from rust (n.). Transitive sense "cause to rust" is from 1590s. Related: Rusted; rusting.
- rust (n.)
- "red oxide of iron," Old English rust "rust; moral canker," related to rudu "redness," from Proto-Germanic *rusta- (cognates: Frisian rust, Old High German and German rost, Middle Dutch ro(e)st), from PIE *reudh-s-to- (cognates: Lithuanian rustas "brownish," rudeti "to rust;" Latin robigo, Old Church Slavonic ruzda "rust"), from root *reudh- "red" (see red (adj.1)).
As a plant disease, attested from mid-14c. Rust Belt "decayed urban industrial areas of mid-central U.S." (1984) was popularized, if not coined, by Walter Mondale's presidential campaign.
雙語例句
- 1. Rust and flaking paint mean the metalwork is in poor condition.
- 生銹和掉漆說明金屬配件損毀嚴重。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Ray painted below the waterline with a special anti-rust paint.
- 雷用專門的防銹涂料涂船的吃水線以下的部位。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. pipes covered with rust
- 生了銹的管子
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. It is better to wear out than rust out.
- 與其懶死,不如累死.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. As rust is to iron, so is laziness to man.
- 懶惰對于人好比鐵生了銹.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》