| 单词 | foul |
| 释义 | adjective | verb | noun foulfoul1 /faʊl/ ●●○ adjective 1SMELL/TASTE a foul smell or taste is very bad SYN disgusting, horrible: Residents have complained of foul odors from the factory. a pile of foul-smelling garbage2sports not within the rules of a sport or not within the limits of the playing field or court: Sanchez hit three foul balls before connecting with a line drive to right field.3foul language impolite and offensive words SYN swear words: Never use foul language to a customer.4have a foul mouth informal to use a lot of swear words and offensive language5in a foul mood in a very bad mood and likely to get angry: She was in a foul mood the next morning.6AIR/WATER very dirty: the foul haze of pollution over the city7WEATHER foul weather is stormy and windy, with a lot of rain or snow: All that night the foul weather continued.8EVIL literary evil or cruel: foul deeds[Origin: Old English ful]—foully adverb—foulness noun [uncountable] → see also cry foul at cry1 (5), by fair means or foul at fair1 (18), fall foul of somebody/something at fall1 (22) adjective | verb | noun foulfoul2 verb 1[intransitive, transitive] a)if a sports player fouls another player, they do something that is not allowed by the rules of the sport: Hardaway was fouled while trying to make a three-point shot (=another player tried to stop Hardaway by doing something that was not allowed). b)to hit a ball outside the limit of the playing area in baseball2[transitive] to make something very dirty, especially with waste SYN pollute: The oil spill has fouled at least four beaches.3[intransitive, transitive] (also foul up) formal if a rope, chain, or part of a machine fouls or if something fouls it, it twists or cannot move as it should: Check that nothing can foul the moving parts.foul out phrasal verb a)in baseball, to hit a ball outside the playing area that is caught by a player on the other team so that your turn to try to hit the ball is over b)in basketball, to make more than five fouls in a game so that you are not allowed to play in that game anymorefoul up phrasal verb informal foul something ↔ up to do something wrong or to spoil something by making a mistake: Someone had fouled up the accounts. You’ve totally fouled up this time. adjective | verb | noun foulfoul3 noun [countable] 1an action in a sport that is against the rules: He’d committed three fouls by half-time.2in baseball, a ball that has been hit outside the playing area |
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