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sty

/stahy/US // staɪ //UK // (staɪ) //

风格,样式,风格化,形状

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural sties.

    • : a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
    • : any filthy place or abode.
    • : a place of bestial debauchery.
v.有主动词 verb
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    stied, sty·ing.

    • : to keep or lodge in or as if in a sty.
v.无主动词 verb
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    stied, sty·ing.

    • : to live in or as if in a sty.

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Examples

  • It was a small sty and easily treatable, but Sherber still wanted to know what caused it.

  • The place was a ruin; literally, the pig sty of a collective farm.

  • It took a few days to turn this place into something other than a pig sty, which it was.

  • Thereupon dug the thrall a large ditch in the sty & carried away the earth, and afterwards placed wood across it.

  • Now by them in the sty had they a light there with them, and the Earl said: Why art thou so pale, yet withal as black as earth?

  • Howbeit one place is there wherein would I never seek for such a man 62 as thou, and that is in the swine-sty.

  • In the village I just came from, the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty.

  • In a few hours it will matter little whether old Ephraim Lovegrove lived and died in a pig-sty or a palace.