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dross

/draws, dros/US // drɔs, drɒs //UK // (drɒs) //

渣滓,糟粕,残渣,渣土

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : waste matter; refuse.
    • : Metallurgy. a waste product taken off molten metal during smelting, essentially metallic in character.
    • : British. coal of little value.

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Examples

  • And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

  • Though, rightly considered, it was but dross and dust, and riches were an awful snare.

  • The poetry lies in a heap of dross, and must be painfully smelted out.

  • The lead should be melted first and all the dross cleaned off.

  • So you can find in Vane the pure gold of two hundred and fifty years of American civilisation, with no particle of its dross.