wash是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to clean something using water -- 洗，清洗，洗滌

  • wash your hair/hands 洗你的頭／手

  • wash the car/clothes/floor 洗車／洗衣服／擦洗地板

  • These sheets need washing. 這些床單需要洗洗。

  • I'll wash the bottle out (= clean its inside) and use it again. 我要把瓶子洗乾淨再用。

  • I'd like to wash before dinner. 吃飯前我要洗洗手。

• 1 If water washes somewhere, it flows there, usually repeatedly. -- （水）漫過，流過，沖刷

  • She stood on the shore and let the water wash over her tired feet. 她站在岸邊，任水漫過她疲憊的雙腳。

  • Overnight the waves had washed up a lot of rubbish. 一夜之間海水將大量垃圾沖上了岸。

  • More than 400 dead dolphins had been washed ashore. 400多頭死亡的海豚被沖上了岸。

  • A Spanish crew member had been washed overboard (= carried off a ship into the sea by the force of the water) in the storm. 風暴中一名西班牙船員從船上被沖到海裡。

• 2 the action of washing something or a part of your body -- 洗，洗滌；洗澡

  • Those curtains need a good (= careful) wash. 那些窗簾需要好好洗一洗了。

  • Erik needed a good wash after playing in the garden. 埃里克在花園裡玩過之後需要好好洗個澡。

  • Can I put this shirt in (with) the white wash? 我能把這件襯衫同白色的衣服一起洗嗎？

  • "Where's my pink shirt?" "It's in the wash" (= being washed or in a pile of clothes that is going to be washed). 「我的粉紅襯衫呢？」「正在洗著呢（或在要洗的衣服堆裡）。」

  • I need to have a wash before dinner 吃飯前我要洗洗手。

  • Are you doing a wash tonight? 你今天晚上要洗衣服嗎？

• 3 a thin layer of water or paint mixed with water, especially one that is brushed lightly over a painting to make the lines softer -- （水的）一層；（塗料的）薄塗層

  • a blue wash/ a wash of blue 一層藍漆

  • Just before the paint dries, I give it a light wash. 油漆即將乾透時，我又在上面塗上薄薄的一層。

• 4 an event or situation in which positive and negative things balance each other -- 均衡局勢

  • If pollution controls are enforced here, the factories will move to where they're allowed to pollute, so it'll be a wash as far as clear air goes. 假如這裡要施行控制污染的措施，那些工廠就會搬到允許污染的地方。因此就空氣的清潔而言，這一措施說不上好或壞。

• 5 (the sound made) when the sea moves against land, etc. -- 海浪的沖刷聲

  • Outside the house, she could hear the gentle wash of the waves on the beach. 在公寓房間外面，她可以聽到海浪沖刷沙灘發出的輕柔聲響。