定义
to rot: 腐烂,变坏,恶化,分解
rotten (apples, politicians): 腐烂的(苹果,政治家)
- "A recent study has shown that 2.2% of screw-cap bottles - metal stoppers which replace real corks - contain high sulphur levels, resulting in a smell of rotten eggs."
- "But the idea of accompanying my meal with a glass of wine that smells like rotten eggs?"
- "You smell like wet skunk and rotten eggs."
- "If it weren't for me, you'd be rotting away in some stinking swamp in the Amazon!"
- "Now nobody wants to join us, and when we march in the street, we have to duck to avoid rotten fruit thrown by angry onlookers."