看得見的髒污與泥土
最實在的一層：地上、身上那些讓東西變髒的東西，以及它們的來源——鬆散的泥土。
mud or dust · noun · B1
Mud, dust, or other stuff that makes things or people not clean.
髒東西 / 污垢
核心畫面
Picture the dust and mud that to hands, floors, or clothes and makes them not clean — the stuff you want to wipe or wash off.
可以想成沾在手上、地上、衣服上那層讓東西『不乾淨』的灰塵和泥巴——你會想把它擦掉、洗掉的那種髒。
Two branches
見不得人的『髒』（比喻）
把『髒污弄髒東西』這個畫面搬到人身上：會弄髒一個人名聲或談吐格調的東西，也叫 dirt。
scandalous information · noun · B2
Secret bad news about someone's private life that could make other people think less of them.
醜聞 / 把柄
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dirtnoun/dɜːt/
- 1
Soil or earth.
- 2
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- 3
Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- Perhaps inevitably, as the manipulation of the stars' public images became ever more rigorous, so too did the efforts of gossip columnists such as Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper to uncover dirt and scandal.
- 4
Meanness; sordidness.
- honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy
- 5
businessminingIn placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- 6
Freckles.
- I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.
- a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.
- 7
archaicExcrement; dung.
- And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fatte closed vpon the blade, so that hee could not drawe the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.
dirtverb/dɜːt/
- 1
rareTo make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。