smear
smear 英 [smɪə(r)] 美 [smɪr]
vt. 诽谤；弄脏；涂上；把…擦模糊 n. 涂片；诽谤；污点 vi. 被弄脏
进行时:smearing 过去式:smeared 过去分词:smeared 第三人称单数:smears 名词复数:smears
- To smear something is to smudge or blur it. You might literally smear your pen-and-ink drawing, or figuratively have your reputation smeared by getting caught in a lie.
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- vt. 诽谤；弄脏；涂上；把…擦模糊
- n. 涂片；诽谤；污点
- vi. 被弄脏
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1. She spotted a little blood onto the smear.
她把一点儿血滴到了涂片上。
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2. How do you know if that's a real tweet or if it's some campaign smear?
那么你怎么能知道它是一条真实的推文，或者是蓄意运作的诽谤呢？
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3. Mr Souza, who always denied the accusations, said they were an attempt by rivals to smear him and that there was no evidence to back them.
华莱士·苏扎一直拒绝承认这些指控，并声称这只是他的竞争者们企图诽谤他，但却没有任何证据支持他们。
- smear (n.) "mark or stain left by smearing," 1610s, from smear (v.). Sense of "small quantity prepared for microscopic examination" is from 1903. Meaning "a quantity of cream cheese, etc., smeared on a bagel" is by 1999, from Yiddish shmir. The earliest noun sense in English is "fat, grease, ointment" (c. 1200), from Old English had smeoru "fat, grease," cognate with Middle Dutch smere, Dutch smeer, German Schmer "grease, fat" (Yiddish schmir), Danish smør, Swedish smör "butter."
- smear (v.) Old English smerian, smierwan "to anoint or rub with grease, oil, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *smerwjan "to spread grease on" (source also of Old Norse smyrja "to anoint, rub with ointment," Danish smøre, Swedish smörja, Dutch smeren, Old High German smirwen "apply salve, smear," German schmieren "to smear;" Old Norse smör "butter"), from PIE *smeru- "grease" (source also of Greek myron "unguent, balsam," Old Irish smi(u)r "marrow," Old English smeoru "fat, grease, ointment, tallow, lard, suet," Lithuanian smarsas "fat").
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