| 单词 | foul |
| 释义 | foul (faʊl ) Word forms: fouler , foulest , fouls , fouling , fouled 1. adjective If you describe something as foul, you mean it is dirty and smells or tastes unpleasant. ...foul polluted water. The smell was quite foul. Synonyms: dirty, rank, offensive, nasty 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Foul language is offensive and contains swear words or rude words. He was sent off for using foul language in a match last Sunday. He had a foul mouth. Synonyms: obscene, crude, indecent, foul-mouthed 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If someone has a foul temper or is in a foul mood, they become angry or violent very suddenly and easily. Collins was in a foul mood even before the interviews began. 4. adjective Foul weather is unpleasant, windy, and stormy. 5. verb If a place is fouled by someone or something, they make it dirty. Two oil-related accidents have fouled the ocean and the skies there. [VERB noun] 6. verb If an animal fouls a place, it drops faeces onto the ground. It is an offence to let your dog foul a footpath. [VERB noun] 7. verb If a machine or vehicle fouls part of its mechanism or if something such as a rope fouls the mechanism, the mechanism can no longer work properly because something has become twisted or knotted around it. The freighter fouled its propeller in fishing nets. [VERB noun] Synonyms: entangle, catch, twist, snarl 8. verb In a game or sport, if a player fouls another player, they touch them or block them in a way which is not allowed according to the rules. He was sent off for fouling the striker. [VERB noun] 9. countable noun A foul is an act in a game or sport that is not allowed according to the rules. He has committed more fouls than any other player this season. [+ on] Foul is also an adjective. ...a foul tackle. 10. cry foul phrase [VERB inflects] If you cry foul, you claim that someone, especially an opponent or rival, has acted illegally or unfairly. Deprived of the crushing victory it was confidently expecting, the party cried foul. 11. by fair means or foul phrase [PHRASE after verb] If someone tries to achieve something by fair means or foul, they use every means possible in order to achieve it, and they do not care if their behaviour is dishonest or unfair. They will only be satisfied if they regain control–by fair means or foul. 12. to fall foul of phrase If you fall foul of someone or run foul of them, you do something which gets you into trouble with them. [mainly British] He had fallen foul of the FBI. ...teenagers who run foul of the law. Phrasal verbs: foul up phrasal verb If you foul up something such as a plan, you spoil it by doing something wrong or stupid. There are serious risks that laboratories may foul up these tests. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Idioms: foul your own nest [literary] to do something which damages your own interests or chances of success Man has invented a hundred brilliant ways of fouling his own nest – the pollution, the heat, the poisons in the air, the metals in the water. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers by fair means or foul by any possible method, even if it is dishonest or unfair She never gave up trying to recover her property, by fair means or foul. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: foul air They just buy land, build and hold, heedless of the consequences in foul air and congestion that their grandchildren will have to live with. Times, Sunday Times Before we discovered germs, we attributed the spread of most diseases to foul air. Times,Sunday Times The captain was gasping badly in the foul air. Times, Sunday Times Conditions were atrocious: the dug-out was freezing, flooded to waist level and with four feet of foul air as the only breathing space. The Times Literary Supplement This would allow foul air to enter the bathroom. Times, Sunday Times It neutralises foul odour of skunk spray. The Sun Some complained of a foul odour. The Sun Chronic ulcer symptoms usually include increasing pain, friable granulation tissue, foul odour, and wound breakdown instead of healing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A foul odour on the breath can signal aspiration pneumonia. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A new family moved in and claimed that demonic forces were causing foul odours, swarms of flies and slime to ooze from the walls. Times, Sunday Times The ship is full of rotting food and experts say that it could release a foul smell. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Locals raised the alarm after noticing a foul smell coming from the suspicious package. The Sun (2014) Two seasons ago it was the foul smell emanating from a broken sewage pipe. Times, Sunday Times (2013) He is definitely hiding something - but is it the foul stench of murder? The Sun (2013) Police were alerted by worried neighbours who reported a foul stench. The Sun (2007) People do not really get it and you will leave them with a foul taste in their mouth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Animals raised with the plant learn to avoid it because of the foul taste of the green and flowering plants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The species can secrete a fluid from joints in their legs which gives them a foul taste. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The butterfly seems to get this foul taste from its plant host, the sedum stenopetalum. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although tobacco was initially prescribed as medicine, further study led to claims that smoking caused dizziness, fatigue, dulling of the senses, and a foul taste/odour in the mouth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 污秽的, 犯规 Japanese: いやな, ファウル |
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