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单词 rotten boroughs
释义

rotten1 /rotˈn/

adjective
  1. Putrefied
  2. Decaying
  3. Affected by rot
  4. Corrupt
  5. Unsound
  6. Disintegrating
  7. Deplorably bad (informal)
  8. Miserably out of sorts (informal)
adverb (slang)

Very much

ORIGIN: ON rotinn; cf rot

rottˈenly adverb

rottˈenness noun

rotten apple noun

A corrupt person

rotten borough noun

A borough that still (till 1832) sent members to parliament though it had few or no inhabitants

rottˈenstone noun

A decomposed silicious limestone that has lost most of its calcareous matter, used for polishing metals

transitive verb

To polish with rottenstone

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