| 词组 | dust |
| 释义 | 1． 常用作不可数名词，下面例子中， dust 前不用冠词: The books were covered in dust. The room was empty and dust lay everywhere. Many of the machines in the base- ment are gathering dust. It is ( as) dry as dust. I throw dust in her eyes. He treated her like dust. 2． 注意: 一般不说 treat sb as dust。 3． 可以说: The old cloth there fell to dust when the detective touched it. You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all your life. Therefore I despise myself and re- pent in dust and ashes. 4． 表示“灰尘”多少时，可以说: a layer of dust a thick layer of dust a cloud of dust huge trails of dust handfuls of dust a speck of dust half an inch of dust on the books 5． 下面的句子中，dust 前可以加不定冠词: The car raised quite a dust. The pupils kicked up a dust when the teacher left the classroom. I gave the room a quick dust. |
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