| 单词 | to go bad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go bad P5. to go bad: (esp. of food) to decay, putrefy, ‘go off’. Cf. sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] marc1225 pairc1390 starvec1400 dispair1580 to go off1583 die1612 spoil1692 to go bad1799 to go wrong1882 to go in the tank1974 1799 Monthly Mag. Oct. 764 This root, after having been covered with water, goes bad, and cannot be kept for any length of time. 1864 Times 1 Jan. 4/6 [He] has already sent me over eggs of fera [sc. a kind of fish]—most of them gone bad, alas! 1884 Daily News 25 Dec. 3/4 It ‘goes bad’ more readily than..cooked butcher's meat. 1929 F. T. Jesse Lacquer Lady iii. 17 Dried fish which has been allowed to go bad. 1968 Somerset Life Oct. 26/2 After washing and shearing the skins are then bleached and ‘chromed’ to ensure that they will never go bad. 1978 G. Greene Human Factor iii. i. 102 Peanuts when they go bad produce a mould. 2001 J. Franzen Corrections 419 A thousand dollars' worth of unrotated duck breasts and veal chops had gone bad in the walk-in. < as lemmas |
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