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mud

/muhd/US // mʌd //UK // (mʌd) //

泥巴,泥浆,泥土,泥泞

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n.名词 noun
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    • : wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
    • : Informal. scandalous or malicious assertions or information: The opposition threw a lot of mud at our candidate.
    • : Slang. brewed coffee, especially when strong or bitter.
    • : a mixture of chemicals and other substances pumped into a drilling rig chiefly as a lubricant for the bit and shaft.
v.有主动词 verb
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    mud·ded, mud·ding.

    • : to cover, smear, or spatter with mud: to mud the walls of a hut.
    • : to stir up the mud or sediment in: waders mudding the clear water.
v.无主动词 verb
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    mud·ded, mud·ding.

    • : to hide in or burrow into mud.

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Examples

  • Gas bubbles rise through puddles of mud, producing goopy popping sounds.

  • That included the mud shack in northeastern South Africa where 4-year-old Ntando Kubheka lived.

  • Allbirds figures that sticking with its best advantage—its good-for-the-planet sheen—represents its best chance of not getting left in the mud.

  • Geysers of oil, rock and mud have shot skyward 100 feet, and slopes have collapsed under smoking waterfalls of crude and wastewater.

  • She splashed around in the water, dressed in her conservative Friday best, her grandchildren squealing and throwing mud at one another.

  • He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.

  • They described him as clad in black, his face smeared with mud.

  • Knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.

  • Sheets of torrential rains pouring down over the Land Rover sent its four wheels plunging into the mud.

  • All around you are farms fields dotted with canted mud structures.

  • Aunt Ri, at her best estate, had never possessed a room which had the expression of this poor little mud hut of Ramona's.

  • In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.

  • The sun was palely shining upon dry, clean pavements and upon roads juicy with black mud.

  • Frank leaped ashore and pushed the boat off, while Mayne held her by jamming the leeward oar into the mud.

  • A cannon-ball crashed through the mud wall and bounded across the enclosure.