grimy

英 [ˈɡraɪmi]

美 [ˈɡraɪmi]

adj.  沾满污垢的; 满是灰尘的

比较级：grimier　

IELTS

BNC.16113 / COCA.15467

牛津词典

adj.

• 沾满污垢的；满是灰尘的
  covered with dirt
  1. grimy hands/windows
     沾满污垢的手；满是灰尘的窗户

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 满是污垢的；肮脏的
  Something that isgrimyis very dirty.
  1. ...a grimy industrial city.
     肮脏的工业城市

英英释义

adj

• thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  1. a miner's begrimed face
  2. dingy linen
  3. grimy hands
  4. grubby little fingers
  5. a grungy kitchen
  Synonym:begrimeddingygrubbygrungyraunchy

双语例句

• This place was grimy and low, the girls were careless and hardened. He found the old man suspended from one of the branches of the oak which shaded his daughter's grave.
  可这地方低矮肮脏，女工们一个个吊儿郎当，一副老油子的样子。于是发现老人已吊死在那棵荫覆他女儿坟墓的橡树丫枝上。
• Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies.
  温斯顿还记不起曾经在什么地方看到过有一条过道的墙上不是由于人体的接触而弄得污黑的。
• I feel grimy just asking the question, since so many campaigns now try to justify as "good for the economy" reduced obesity, equal rights for gay couples, an end to racism or a cure for dementia.
  光是提出这个问题我就感到内心阴暗，因为如今有很多宣传活动试图将减肥、同性恋情侣平等权利、终结种族主义和治疗痴呆症冠以“有益经济”之名。
• The children who crowd these grimy alleys, half-clad and underfed, shrink away from your outstretched hand as if from a blow.
  小孩子们全都挤在这些污秽不堪的巷子里，他们衣不蔽体，食不果腹；在你向他们伸出双手时，他们怯懦地闪退一旁，如同被一阵风吹散。
• Something was sticking from the pocket of the little man's grimy shorts
  小个子男人脏乎乎的短裤口袋里鼓鼓的，伸出来个什么东西。
• A curious fetichistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
  对这本恐怖的书，她的母亲有一种奇怪的物神崇拜的恐惧，从来不敢整夜把它放在屋内，所以每次用完以后，都要把它送回原处。
• It used to be something of a no-go area, a stalking ground for prostitutes, smugglers and drug traffickers, but has since reinvented itself as a chic, if grimy, staging post for holidaymakers to Asia.
  这里曾被视为某种禁区，是***、走私贩和毒品贩出没的地方，不过自此以后，已自我改造成亚洲度假者的时髦补给站，只是有些肮脏。
• Within the envelope there was a piece of folded paper, grimy from the dirty pocket in which it had been carried, creased and ragged about the edges.
  信封里装着一张折叠的信笺，因为被带信人揣在肮脏的口袋里弄得灰糊糊的而且有点破了。
• The dish towel is a bit grimy.
  擦碗布有点儿腻手。
• The thin phone book was grimy from being thumbed by filling station hands.
  薄薄的电话薄让油污的手指翻得黑不溜秋。