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

• 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。
• 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。
• Still wearing the Invisibility Cloak, they crept toward the grimy window and looked down.
  他们仍然披着隐形衣，悄悄走到满是污垢的窗前向下张望。
• A few blocks east, he arrived at Mars Bar, the grimy dive where tourists go in search of authentic punks and authentic punks go to start drinking at midday.
  接着他又向东走了几个街区来到MarsBar酒吧。游客经常来这里寻找真正的朋克，而朋克们常在中午来这里喝酒。
• 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。
• Mandalay's grimy disarray belies its role as Burma's cultural and religious centre of Buddhism.
  曼德勒的肮脏无序掩盖了它作为缅甸文化中心和佛教圣地的地位。
• 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。
• London is so big, grimy and unwieldy you often end the day feeling you have just paid a fortune to run a marathon in a coal mine.
  伦敦庞大、肮脏、行动不便，你在结束一天的忙碌时，往往感觉自己花了大钱，却只是在煤矿里跑马拉松。
• 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。
• 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。