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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• A disgusting, grimy, stinking drunk had been watching all this with great interest.
  一个脏兮兮、臭烘烘的醉汉饶有兴趣地观察着这一切。
• 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 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。