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In this meaning, furred is not about animal hair. It is what happens when a surface slowly gets a soft, unwanted crust. A kettle furs up with from hard water. can fur. A tongue looks furred when you are ill — a pale coating. Doctors used to talk about furred arteries, a fatty lining inside. British English uses this a lot for kettles; you also hear furred up. The picture is “as if a thin fur had grown on it,” which is how the meaning grew from fur, but the feeling now is dirt or deposit, not a nice coat. Though actually, the same spelling still means “covered in fur” in other sentences (a furred hood). Here we are only talking about that unwanted layer.
結垢的、長舌苔的(不是長毛皮)
組成fur (a coating that looks a bit like fur) + -ed (covered with it). In this sense the “fur” is scale, film, or deposit, not an animal’s coat.
同家族的字
- furthe coating was named after fur because of how it looks and feels
原始詞典資料6 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。
furredadj/fɜːd/
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Having fur.
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Made with fur.
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Having a covering of thin, soft, short hair.
- She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
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Coated as if with fur
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Coated as if with fur
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。