rot
柯林斯词典
1. V-T/V-I When food, wood, or another substance rots, or when something rots it, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed. 腐烂
If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos. 如果我们不马上卸货，这些粮食在仓中将开始腐烂。
2. N-UNCOUNT If there is rot in something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart. 腐朽
Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor. 检测显示一楼下面的横梁已经有大面积的腐烂。
3. N-SING You can use the rot to refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time when the rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse. 逐步恶化
In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time. 在许多学校，情况正在逐步恶化，水准在不断降低。
4. V-I If you say that someone is being left to rot in a particular place, especially in a prison, you mean that they are being left there and their physical and mental condition is being allowed to get worse and worse. 身心退化
Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot. 大多数政府只能任由长期失业者颓废下去。
5. ABBREVIATION for rotation (of a mathematical function) (数学函数上的)循环
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rot /rɒt/ (rotting,rotted,rots)
剑桥词典
- to (cause something to) decay
- Most of the crops had rotted in waterlogged fields .
- Leave the leaves in a pile to rot.
- Sugar rots your teeth .
- The wood had rotted into dust .
- Fruit had been left to rot in the fields .
（使）腐败；（使）腐烂；（使）腐朽
The fruit had been left to rot on the trees . 水果无人采摘，烂在了树上。
Rain has got in and rotted (away) the woodwork . 雨水漏了进来，使屋中的木建部分都朽烂了。
the smell of rotting fruit 烂水果的味道
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