Soil



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解释

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• v.弄脏, 污损; n. 弄脏, 污损
• ［英］ v.弄脏, 污损 ( become dirty)
• ［例］ soil one's good name ( 玷污自己的好名声)

Webster Collegiate

I. verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French soiller, suiller, from Old French soil wallow of a wild boar, abyss, from Latin solium chair, bathtub; akin to Latin sedēre to sit — more at sit
• Date: 13th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to stain or defile morally ; corrupt, pollute
  • 2. to make unclean especially superficially ; dirty
  • 3. to blacken or taint (as a person's reputation) by word or deed <revelations that soiled his name>
• intransitive verb
  • to become soiled or dirty

II. noun

• Date: 1501
• 1.
  • a. soilage, stain <protect a dress from soil>
  • b. moral defilement ; corruption
• 2. something that spoils or pollutes: as
  • a. refuse
  • b. sewage
  • c. dung, excrement

III. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, soil, piece of land, from Vulgar Latin *solium, alteration of Latin solea sole, sandal, foundation timber — more at sole
• Date: 14th century
• 1. firm land ; earth
• 2.
  • a. the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow
  • b. the superficial unconsolidated and usually weathered part of the mantle of a planet and especially of the earth
• 3. country, land <our native soil>
• 4. the agricultural life or calling
• 5. a medium in which something takes hold and develops

IV. transitive verb

• Etymology: origin unknown
• Date: 1605
• to feed (livestock) in the barn or an enclosure with fresh grass or green food; also to purge (livestock) by feeding on green food

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