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A dishrag is a cloth for washing or wiping dishes — what many books call a . Dishrag is informal American: rag already hints at a cloth that is not fancy, maybe old, wet, and a bit sad. You wring it out, wipe a plate, hang it over the tap. British English prefers or washing-up cloth; dishrag can sound rough to British ears. People also stretch it: limp as a dishrag means weak, tired, with no strength left, like a wet cloth that cannot stand up. That picture is more common in speech than in careful writing. It is not a towel for drying your hands, and it is not a sponge, though some families use the words loosely for whatever lives by the sink.
洗碗布;洗碗抹布(美式;英式多說 dishcloth。rag 帶一點「舊布、爛布」的味道)
原始詞典資料2 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。
dishragnoun
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Synonym of dishcloth (but now widely held to connote a threadbare and unclean nature versus that synonym).
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slangAn unclean person; used in similes.
- You're not going out like that! You look like a dishrag!
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。