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单词 foggy
释义
foggy
(fɒgi )
Word forms: foggier , foggiest
1. adjective
When it is foggy, there is fog.
It's quite foggy now.
Conditions were damp and foggy after morning sleet.
Synonyms: misty, grey, murky, cloudy  
2. not have the foggiest/not have the foggiest idea phrase
If you say that you haven't the foggiest or you haven't the foggiest idea, you are emphasizing that you do not know something. [informal, emphasis]
I did not have the foggiest idea what he meant.
'How often does it need to be changed?'—'Haven't the foggiest.'
Collocations:
foggy morning
To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I'm standing in a car park at the side of the A4 on a damp and foggy morning.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It was certainly a very dark and foggy morning, but still it seemed an unusual course to stop all business on that account.
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat (1889)
In the chill, foggy morning the ceremony began.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was a grey, foggy morning.
Marsden, Philip The Crossing-Place (1993)
foggy night
It was a foggy night and the temperature dropped to minus seven.
The Sun
People with different perspectives are a lot like two ships passing on a foggy night, moving in different directions, not able to see the other.
Christianity Today
The inventor's fortunes changed while driving on a foggy night in 1933, when he avoided crashing after his headlights reflected in the eyes of a cat.
Times, Sunday Times
On a foggy night, as the clocktow-ers strike midnight from above and below, the roofscape becomes a medieval mess of disembodied turrets, and the 21st century disappears.
Times, Sunday Times
They seem to unfold on a foggy night in an underlit back alley, in the kind of place into which you wouldn't willingly venture.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 多雾的
Japanese: 霧の立ちこめた
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