- the process or state of decaying and falling apart腐爛;腐敗變質
- The wood must not get damp as rot can quickly result.木頭不能受潮,否則很快就會爛掉。
see also dry rot, wet rotTopics Buildingsc1 the rot
used to describe the fact that a situation is getting worse形勢惡化- The rot set in last year when they reorganized the department.去年他們重組這個部門時,衰敗就開始了。
- The team should manage to stop the rot if they play well this week.如果球隊本周比賽表現好,他們應該能夠阻止形勢的惡化。
- (British English, old-fashioned) silly things that somebody says廢話;胡說 synonym nonsense, rubbish
- Don't talk such rot!别說這樣的廢話!
Word OriginOld English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun (Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian.