| 单词 | rotten-sweet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrotten-sweet C2. With adjectives and past participles, as rotten-dry, rotten-red, rotten-sweet, rotten-woven. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xii. xii. 365 That they bee not brittle, and rather ripe drie, than sere or rotten-drie. 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 319 Stumps of all..colors, from rotten-red and brown down to coal-black. 1868 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 184 In the train I was noticing that strange rotten-woven cloud. 1947 M. Morris in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 348 She stood over the bin inhaling the queer rotten-sweet smell of the blossoms. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 17 July 34 Above the rotten-sweet smell of the river mud. < as lemmas |
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