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musty adj.发霉的；霉臭的；落伍的 (1) 书架上堆着发霉的旧书，书页已经又黄又脆。(2) 这房间闻起来有霉味。(3) 房间里弥漫着一股霉臭气。 Musty smells take time to develop: they’re caused by dampness and mold, and signal some amount of decay. You might also call the smell of a musty old basement rank or foul. But people also use musty to insult someone’s writing, or their ideas. A musty speech wouldn’t just be old-fashioned, it would be old in a bad way: rotten and boring.

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英 ['mʌsti] 美 ['mʌsti] (1) The shelves are loaded with old musty books whose pages have become yellowish.(2) This room smells a little musty.(3) A musty odour pervades the room. Musty is an unclean, stale and possibly moldy smell. If something smells musty that means it’s probably been sitting in a damp corner without any air for a little too long. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]有霉味的；发霉的 Something that is musty smells old and damp. There are racks of musty clothing and piles of junk.有几架子发霉的衣物和成堆的废旧杂物。...that terrible musty smell.难闻的霉味

英语单词	musty
英美音标	英 ['mʌsti] 美 ['mʌsti]
中文释义	adj.发霉的；霉臭的；落伍的
英语例句	(1) The shelves are loaded with old musty books whose pages have become yellowish. (2) This room smells a little musty. (3) A musty odour pervades the room.
中文例句	(1) 书架上堆着发霉的旧书，书页已经又黄又脆。 (2) 这房间闻起来有霉味。 (3) 房间里弥漫着一股霉臭气。
vocabulary简明	Musty is an unclean, stale and possibly moldy smell. If something smells musty that means it’s probably been sitting in a damp corner without any air for a little too long.
vocabulary扩展	Musty smells take time to develop: they’re caused by dampness and mold, and signal some amount of decay. You might also call the smell of a musty old basement rank or foul. But people also use musty to insult someone’s writing, or their ideas. A musty speech wouldn’t just be old-fashioned, it would be old in a bad way: rotten and boring.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]有霉味的；发霉的 Something that is musty smells old and damp. There are racks of musty clothing and piles of junk. 有几架子发霉的衣物和成堆的废旧杂物。 ...that terrible musty smell. 难闻的霉味

Musty Smells 英 Mʌsti] 美 Mʌsti Adj.发霉的；霉臭的；落伍的 Shelves Loaded