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Slime is a thick, wet, slippery stuff that feels unpleasant on your hands. You might find it on a snail’s trail, on old food, in a pond, or on a fish.
Slime is a thick, wet, slippery stuffSlime（黏液）是一種濃稠、濕濕、滑滑的東西 that feels unpleasant on your hands摸在手上會覺得噁心。You might find it on a snail's trail, on old food, in a pond, or on a fish你可能會在蝸牛爬過的痕跡上、放久的食物上、池塘裡，或魚身上看到它。
People also use it for anything that looks or feels like that, even when it is not from an animal.
People also use it for anything that looks or feels like that人們也用這個詞來說任何看起來、摸起來像那樣的東西，even when it is not from an animal就算不是來自動物身上。
Children now often say slime for a bright, toy you can squeeze; that toy is meant to be fun, but the older meaning is still “.” In stories and games, a slime can even be a little monster.
Children now often say slime for a bright, stretchy toy you can squeeze現在小孩常把slime用來說一種顏色鮮豔、可以捏的黏土玩具，that toy is meant to be fun那種玩具是要好玩的，but the older meaning is still "yuck"但原本的意思還是「噁心」。In stories and games, a slime can even be a little monster在故事和遊戲裡，slime甚至可以是一種小怪物。
As a verb, to slime someone is to cover them with this stuff — a joke, a prank, or something rude. Calling a person slime is a strong insult: you mean they are dishonest and ugly in the way they treat people.
As a verb當動詞用的時候，to slime someone is to cover them with this stuffslime某人就是把這種東西倒在他們身上——a joke, a prank, or something rude可能是開玩笑、惡作劇，或很沒禮貌的事。Calling a person slime說一個人是slime is a strong insult是很重的侮辱：you mean they are dishonest and ugly in the way they treat people意思是他們對人的方式既不老實又很惡劣。
That stretch is informal; the thick-stuff meaning is just ordinary.
That stretch is informal那種延伸用法是口語的；the thick-stuff meaning is just ordinary濃稠黏液那個意思則很普通、不特別。
組成From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Kin outside English include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish / Norwegian slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím, and more distantly Latin limus (“mud”) and Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”). The verb comes from the same noun.
原始詞典資料16 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。
slimenoun/slaɪm/
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Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
- As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
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Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.
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Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
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derogatoryinformalA sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- "What about that, you slime?"
- If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.
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fantasyvideo-gamesA monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.
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obsoleteHuman flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
- […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]
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obsoleteJew’s slime (bitumen).
- And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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slangA friend; a homie.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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vulgarslangSemen.
slimeverb/slaɪm/
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To coat with slime.
- ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
- Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.
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To besmirch or disparage.
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To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.
- You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.
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To move like slime.
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To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
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slangTo murder.
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To denigrate or slander.
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。