单词 | seamy |
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音标 | ['si:mi] |
解释 | a.肮脏的,恶劣的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 肮脏的,恶劣的(unpl easant, degraded, sordid) 【考】 反义词:decent and respectable(体面而 值得尊敬的) 【记】 seam(缝)+y→裂缝里 的→黑暗的 【例】 the seamy side of city life |
字源 | seamy (adj.) c.1600, "least pleasant, worst," in figurative phrase seamy side, from seam + -y (2); the seamy side of a sewn garment being the less attractive, and thus typically turned in. The popularity of the figurative sense likely is due to its use by Shakespeare in "Othello" IV.ii.146: "Some such Squire he was That turn'd your wits the seamy-side without, And made you to suspect me with the Moore." |
不择手段背单词 | adj. 肮脏的; 卑鄙的 【记】seam缝, y: 露出线缝的-肮脏的, 卑鄙的 【反】decent and respectable(体面而值得尊敬的) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】seam缝隙里一般很脏,藏污纳垢,如桌子缝里 |
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