rusty
rusty 英 [ˈrʌsti] 美 [ˈrʌsti]
adj. 生锈的，腐蚀的；铁锈色的，锈色的；迟钝的
比较级:rustier 最高级:rustiest
- If your German is rusty, it's like the bike you left out in the rain too many times that turned brown and flakey on the metal parts. Like your bike, your German skills became rusty, meaning they're suffering from neglect.
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- adj. 生锈的，腐蚀的；铁锈色的，锈色的；迟钝的
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1. The door grated on its rusty hinges.
这扇门因铰链生锈开关发出嘎嘎的声音。
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2. If the machinery were not maintained properly, It would get rusty as time passes.
机器要不好好养护,久而久之就要生锈。
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3. These substances leak from the rusty barrels and pollute soil.
这些物质从生锈的桶中渗出然后污染了土壤。
- rusty (adj.) Old English rustig; see rust (n.) + -y (2). Cognate with Frisian roastich, Middle Dutch roestich, Dutch roestig, Old High German rostag, German rostig. "In the 16th and 17th centuries frequently used as a term of general disparagement" [OED]. Of bodily skills, "impaired by neglect," from c. 1500; of mental qualities, accomplishments, etc., first attested 1796.
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