Foul

(noun.) an act that violates the rules of a sport.

(verb.) become soiled and dirty.

(verb.) make unclean; 'foul the water'.

(verb.) spot, stain, or pollute; 'The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it'.

(verb.) commit a foul; break the rules.

(verb.) hit a foul ball.

(adj.) (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines .

黛娜编辑

• Of the foul German spectre--the Vampyre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Besides those which are of common observation it is used for lighting the interior of mines, caves, and the dark apartments of ships, and does not foul the air. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And will he sell his own fairer and diviner part without any compunction to the most godless and foul? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The night was hot, and the shop, close shut and surrounded by so foul a neighbourhood, was ill-smelling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Go ahead you, and keep out in pretty open water, that I mayn't get fouled again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A man whom he had loaded with benefits and regarded with affection had subjected him to the foulest indignity. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That exemplary brother and sister--lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

费利西亚编辑