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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- mud [m^d]
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1.
noun
[u]
泥
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1.
noun
[u]
泥
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- mud [m^d]
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1.
n
a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc
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2.
n
[informal]
slander or defamation
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3.
vt.
[tr]
to soil or cover with mud
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4.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14: probably from Middle Low German mudde; compare Middle High German mot swamp, mud, Swedish modd slush
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1.
n
a fine-grained soft wet deposit that occurs on the ground after rain, at the bottom of ponds, lakes, etc
Examples
- covered with mud
- 被溅满泥 → cover
- The car settled in the mud.
- 汽车陷入了泥泞中。 → settle
- a shoe stuck in the mud
- 陷入泥里的一只鞋 → stick
- the telltale mud on his shoes
- 鞋上洩露了底细的泥巴 → telltale
- roads thick with mud
- 泥浆覆盖的马路 → thick
- Your shoes are completely caked with mud so you'd better take them off before you come in.
- 你的鞋上都是泥，进来前最好把它们脱了。 → cake
- He is knee-deep in mud.
- 他陷进齐膝深的烂泥里。
- he was covered with bruises/mud
- 他满身淤伤/泥巴 → with
- the car's exhaust was bunged up with mud → bung
- a ring half-buried in the mud → half-buried
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