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单词 raw
释义
raw
(rɔː )
Word forms: rawer , rawest
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
Raw materials or substances are in their natural state before being processed or used in manufacturing.
We import raw materials and energy and export mainly industrial products.
...two ships carrying raw sugar from Cuba.
Synonyms: unrefined, natural, crude, unprocessed  
2. adjective B1
Raw food is food that is eaten uncooked, that has not yet been cooked, or that has not been cooked enough.
...a popular dish made of raw fish.
This versatile vegetable can be eaten raw or cooked.
Half of it is burned and half of it is raw.
Synonyms: uncooked, natural, fresh, bloodyof meat  
3. adjective
If a part of your body is raw, it is red and painful, perhaps because the skin has come off or has been burnt.
...the drag of the rope against the raw flesh of my shoulders.
Her feet hurt and her hands were rubbed raw from unaccustomed work.
Synonyms: sore, open, skinned, sensitive  
4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Raw emotions are strong basic feelings or responses which are not weakened by other influences.
...the raw passions of nationalism.
Her grief was still raw and he did not know how to help her.
Synonyms: frank, plain, bare, naked  
rawness singular noun
The rawness of his greed was frank and uninhibited.
5. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe something as raw, you mean that it is simple, powerful, and real.
...the raw power of instinct.
...the raw vitality of his earlier painting.
Synonyms: simple, natural, clean, classic  
rawness uncountable noun
Recorded almost live, there's a certain seductive rawness about the whole thing.
6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Raw data is facts or information that has not yet been sorted, analysed, or prepared for use.
Analyses were conducted on the raw data.
...a statistical model that fully adjusts the census's raw figures.
Synonyms: unprepared  
7. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone in a new job as raw, or as a raw recruit, you mean that they lack experience in that job.
...replacing experienced men with raw recruits.
Davies is still raw but his potential shows.
Synonyms: inexperienced, new, green, ignorant  
8. adjective
Raw weather feels unpleasantly cold.
Once they cleared the housetops, the wind was raw and biting.
...a raw December morning.
Synonyms: chilly, biting, cold, freezing  
9. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Raw sewage is sewage that has not been treated to make it cleaner.
...contamination of bathing water by raw sewage.
Synonyms: untreated, crude, unprocessed, in its natural state  
10. a raw deal phrase
If you say that you are getting a raw deal, you mean that you are being treated unfairly. [informal]
They feel that Quebec is getting a raw deal.
I think women have a raw deal.
11. in the raw phrase [noun PHRASE]
You use in the raw to describe something that is in its true state, and has not been made civilized or respectable.
This is nature in the raw.
He also wanted to see Bangladesh in the raw.
It exposes capitalism in the raw.
Synonyms: in its natural state, untouched by human hand, as God intended  
12. touch a raw nerve phrase
If you say that you have touched a nerve or touched a raw nerve, you mean that you have accidentally upset someone by talking about something that they feel strongly about or are very sensitive about.
Alistair saw Henry shrink, as if the words had touched a nerve.
The mere mention of John had touched a very raw nerve indeed.
Idioms:
get a raw deal
to be treated unfairly or badly
We must ask why bank customers get such a raw deal. And then find ways to make sure they get treated fairly in future.
come the raw prawn [mainly Australian]
to try to cheat or trick someone
I'm afraid to say they were caught trying to come the raw prawn, as it were.
Collocations:
raw recruit
A heavy, raw recruit, he debuted in 1927 and was considered to be slow and cumbersome at the beginning of his career.
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Filmed over 12 months, it goes into all aspects of a regimen that turns raw recruits into elite soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times
Others say that it was a steep learning curve for raw recruits that resulted in final victory using modern tactics with artillery, tanks and aircraft.
The Sun
He seems in little doubt about the benefit to companies such as his of bringing in raw recruits brimming with ideas and individuality.
Times, Sunday Times
Experienced soldiers can hold their ground under a hail of fire, raw recruits will break and run.
Times, Sunday Times
raw sewage
It took ten engineers to destroy this monster, swollen to the size of a bus, and stop raw sewage exploding back up above ground.
Times, Sunday Times
During heavy rain, they are permitted to discharge raw sewage held in emergency overflows directly into rivers.
Times,Sunday Times
In the height of summer, even when the pump has not broken down, the smell of raw sewage engulfs the estate.
Times, Sunday Times
No one, not even water company executives, wants to swim or surf through raw sewage.
Times, Sunday Times
There are about 300,000 sewer blockages a year, causing raw sewage to flood thousands of homes.
Times, Sunday Times
raw speed
This cracking title gives a thrilling sense of the sport's raw speed.
Times, Sunday Times
And he doesn't really dribble past his opponents but uses his raw speed to toepoke the ball past them and keeps going.
Times,Sunday Times
His loss of raw speed runs deeper than his car not being suited to the cooler track temperatures.
Times, Sunday Times
However, it's not the brutal acceleration and raw speed that has made me gasp.
The Sun
There's the jaw-dropping raw speed, the grip and road holding of a rally car and all the gizmos you'd expect from a supercar.
The Sun
raw talent
It will be a testing venue for such raw talent.
Times, Sunday Times
That's what you get from such a raw talent.
Times, Sunday Times
It made observers sit up and take notice of a raw talent.
Times, Sunday Times
But nobody becomes a star ballerina by accident; in this technically demanding discipline, raw talent won't get far without steely dedication.
Times, Sunday Times
Let's hope this was an off night rather than another raw talent prematurely overexposed.
Times, Sunday Times
raw wool
Its 180 workers now process 10 tons of raw wool a week and it produces more than 3m ft of fabric a year.
Times, Sunday Times
Raw wool would be weighed and sorted according to a variety of classifications, and sent on for opening, willowing and pickering.
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Steel rails, raw wool, iron ore, and agricultural implements had zero rates.
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Spinning was the only means of turning raw wool, cotton or flax into thread, which could then be woven into cloth.
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The village also has a historical museum which has a group of artisans making items with raw wool like jackets, berets, ponchos, etc.
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raw wound
And 'savaging' a cypress will only leave a raw wound to its canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
To be 'pickled' was to have raw wounds marinated in a concoction of pepper and lime juice.
Times, Sunday Times
Even so, much of the damage of the winter - and the raw wounds that followed - has been repaired.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 未加工的
Japanese: 生の
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