putrid
putrid 英 ['pjuːtrɪd] 美
adj. 腐败的；腐烂的；令人厌恶的
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- adj. 腐败的；腐烂的；令人厌恶的
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1. To eat putrid food is liable to get sick.
吃了腐败的食物容易生病。
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2. Particularly poignant was a scream overheard when he was canoeing through the “putrid exhalations” of mangrove swamps in the Brazilian interior.
当他划独木舟沿路经过巴西内陆地区时，四周弥漫着“红树林沼泽地腐烂了的呼出物”，尤为尖锐的嘶喊声不绝于耳。
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3. putrid smelling breath – even if the teeth look perfect – can be a sign of acute necrotising periodontitis.
即使牙齿看上去很完美，呼出腐臭的气味也可能是急性坏死性牙周炎的迹象。
- putrid (adj.) early 15c., from Latin putridus, from putrere "to rot," from putris "rotten, crumbling," related to putere "to stink," from PIE root *pu- (2) "to rot, stink" (see pus). First in reference to putrid fever, an old name for typhus (also known in Middle English as putrida). Related: Putrification.
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