1 If a skill you had is rusty, it is not as good as it was because you have not practised it:
2 (esp. of a person) not as good at knowing or doing something as you once were, because you have not practiced it in a long time:
We’re a little rusty after having the summer off.
3 (of the surface of something made of iron or steel) covered with a red-brown substance that formed as a result of decay caused by reacting with air and water:
The door squeaked as it swung back and forth on its rusty hinges.
I pushed back the rusty old gate and staggered into the garden.
In the preoccupations of war their studies have been forgotten, and their capacity to study grown rusty.
All the rivets and nails were unused, but they were rusty and mixed in sizes.
You are allowing the machinery of those yards to go rusty, and you are letting the men go rusty too.
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金屬, 生銹的, 需要練習…
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oxidado, oxidado/da [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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(金属が)さびた, さびついた…
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