| 单词 | clean air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclean air a. Free from any defiling or deteriorating ingredient; unmixed with foreign matter, pure, unadulterated. Now commonly expressed by pure, except when the contaminating ingredient is ‘dirt’; as in ‘pure’ or ‘clean water’; clean air, unpolluted atmosphere (frequently attributive). As applied to metals, there may originally have been connection with the preceding notion of ‘clear’, ‘undimmed’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > unadulterated or undiluted clean883 purea1393 uncorrumpeda1400 uncorrupted1541 sincere1557 stark naked?1594 undelayed1600 unsophisticated1630 entire1640 inadulterate1648 dephlegmated1651 neat1651 unalloyeda1672 intaminateda1695 undrossy1708 net1713 unadulterate1716 unsophistical1736 uncauponateda1752 undiluted1756 absolute1810 undefecated1812 unadulterated1823 undilute1876 undoctored1882 uncut1967 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > ventilation and air-conditioning > [adjective] > clean (air) live1830 clean air1927 883 Cod. Dipl. II. 111 Ðæt land ic selle Cynulfe for syxtigum mancesa clænes goldes. a1000 Canons of Edgar §39 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 252 Clæne oflete, and clæne win, and clæne wæter. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 435 Hyr maydenes brouȝte hyre clene water. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 292 Bred..of clene whete. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xxi. 18 The citee it silf was of cleene gold, lijk to cleene glas. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxiv. 276 I am an infant at þe pappis, and live with clene melke. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 17 A torche of clene vexe [wax]. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria i. f. 16v He gave a senser, and a shyp of clene syluer [L. argento puro]. 1584 Partridge's Treasurie (rev. ed.) lxxx. sig. E6 A little cleane wine. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 48 Good money of cleane siluer. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 59 Half-clean hemp is very foul, and full of shivers. 1872 R. B. Smyth Mining Statist. 26 A seam of good clean coal. 1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 528/1 The beans [are] then put through a winnower..and it is then called ‘clean coffee’. 1927 Lancet 26 Mar. 685/1 Smethwick in Staffordshire held a ‘Clean Air Week’ from March 14th to 19th, during which period an effort was made to keep the atmosphere free from smoke. 1957 Ann. Reg. 1956 iv. 348 The passage of a Clean Air Act..was welcomed by smoke abatement enthusiasts and by all concerned with public health. 1958 Times 2 June p. xii/4 The problem of securing clean air, that is to say an atmosphere throughout the whole country relatively free from pollution and contamination. < as lemmas |
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