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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He could see grimy roofs, factory chimneys and church spires.
  他可以看到肮脏的屋顶，工厂的烟囱和教堂的尖顶。
• There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger "Dirty pig"; and she had already written it on several.
  没有一个舷窗的玻璃不脏，你都能在上面用手指写出脏猪的字样；她已经在几个舷窗上写下了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。