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

• 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。
• 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，是妓女、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。
• 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。
• The recent arrival of Chinese traders in the grimy alleys of Soweto market in Lusaka halved the cost of chicken.
  近期进入卢萨卡索韦托市场的污秽小巷的中国商人使得鸡肉价格减半。
• Texas artist Scott Wade paints amazingly detailed images on grimy car windows.
  得克萨斯州艺术家斯科特韦德油漆惊人详细的图像上脏兮兮的车窗。
• He struck himself on the forehead with his grimy hand, and felt that his entire head was as bald and smooth as his beardless chin.
  他又用又黑又脏的手摸了摸前额，突然发现他的整个脑袋又秃又平，长胡子的地方也同样如此。
• As the Harmony Express pulls into the grimy railway station in China's ancient capital of Xi'an, an army of blue-uniformed attendants busily begin polishing its gleaming, sleek exterior.
  当和谐号列车驶入中国古都西安那破旧肮脏的火车站后，一大群身着蓝色制服的列车员便开始忙碌地擦洗它那光可鉴人的流线型车身。
• With its clear rules, an easy-to-navigate layout and the membership system that transforms anonymous sites into trustworthy suppliers, Alibaba is like a shiny, bright, well-kept supermarket compared with grimy streetmongers.
  明确的规则、易于浏览的页面布局和化匿名网站为可靠供应商的会员制度，让阿里巴巴看上去就像一家光亮整洁的超市，是那些肮脏的街头小贩遥不可及的。
• Dipankar Gupta, a political scientist, says farmers in the villages used to know that tomorrow would be as "grimy" as today.
  政治学家狄潘卡古普塔（dipankargupta）表示，过去，村里的农民们认为，未来会像现在一样“灰暗”。
• There are some superficial excitements here, in that the younger characters get up to things that Harry probably never dreamed of: taking drugs, swearing, self-harming, having grimy casual sex, singing along to Rihanna.
  这里有一些肤浅的兴奋，年轻的人物接触的是哈利大概做梦也没想到的事：吸毒，诅咒，自残，滥交，一路高歌蕾哈娜的歌曲。