dregs
dregs 英 [dregz] 美 [dreɡz]
n. 渣滓；少量；沉淀物（dreg的复数）
名词复数:dregs
- Those little grains of tea or coffee left at the bottom of the cup are known as the dregs. The dregs are the least wanted portion, or the residue.
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- n. 渣滓；少量；沉淀物（dreg的复数）
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1. She’d spent her childhood mornings at that counter, culling raisins from her cereal, surveying the remains of her father’s dawn meal, his toast crusts, the sugared dregs in his coffee mug.
她童年的每个早晨都在那个柜面上度过，从她的谷类食品中挑出葡萄干儿，细细考量她父亲黎明餐的残留物，留下的面包皮嘻嘻考量她父亲黎明餐的残留物，留下的面包碴，咖啡杯里混着糖的渣滓。
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2. The east and west culture is a comparatively separate value system of their own society, and each style of culture has advantages and dregs. So the two cultures should nourish and benefit each other.
东西方文化是适应它们各自社会的相对独立的价值体系，每一种文化都有它们自己的优点和不足，因此，两种文化应相互充实。
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3. In short, torture has not been thought necessary in the laws of armies, composed chiefly of the dregs of mankind, where its use should seem most necessary.
简而言之，甚至连在军队——这种由残暴的劣等人构成、严刑酷法看起来必不可少的地方——严刑也是不被采纳的。
- dregs (n.) c. 1300 (implied in surname Dryngedregges), from Old Norse dregg "sediment," from Proto-Germanic *drag- (source also of Old High German trestir, German Trester "grapeskins, husks"), from PIE *dher- (1) "to make muddy." Replaced Old English cognate dræst, dærst "dregs, lees." Figurative use is from 1530s.
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