VERB (局势、问题或情感)恶化,激化,加剧 If you say that a situation, problem, or feeling is festering, you disapprove of the fact that it is being allowed to grow more unpleasant or full of anger, because it is not being properly recognized or dealt with.
Resentments are starting to fester. 仇恨开始日益加深。
...festering wounds of the legacy of British imperialism. 英帝国主义遗留的日益恶化的创伤
VERB 化脓;溃烂 If a wound festers, it becomes infected, making it worse.
The wound is festering, and gangrene has set in... 伤口在溃烂,已经生了坏疽。
Many of the children are afflicted by festering sores. 很多孩子深受溃烂创痛的折磨。
VERB (食物)腐烂,腐坏,烂掉 If you say that food is festering, you mean that it is decaying in a very unpleasant way.
The chops will fester and go to waste. 猪排会腐烂,给糟蹋掉。
She avoided me the whole next day at work and the tension between us festered for a few days until I came up with a new piece to fill the hole in the magazine. 接下来的一天她躲了我一整天,我们之间的紧张气氛延续了几天直到我找到填补杂志空缺的文章。
The result was that ancient rubbish festered on desks and the new building was overrun by mice. 结果是,废旧垃圾在桌上腐烂,新大楼里老鼠成灾。
Although one of the spills was quickly ended by plugging and abandoning that well, problems festered at a second site where fresh leaks from the seabed floor continued to pop up in July and August. 尽管其中一个漏油点通过堵漏和弃井得到迅速封堵,但在第二个漏油点问题加重,7月和8月新的漏油继续在海床出现。
Bitterness that festered and grew. 不断产生并加深的怨恨。
His memories festered into hate. 回忆往事激起了他的仇恨。
The Greek crisis festered and spread to other deficit countries. 于是,希腊危机开始恶化,并蔓延至其它赤字国家。
The resentment festered in his mind. 他心中的愤恨有增无已。
Wounds festered in the damp, they never healed. 伤口在潮湿中溃烂,永远也不能愈合。
Too often I have made the mistake of sending an irritable response, which will have festered and angered the other end much more than a difficult telephone exchange. 我就时常犯这样的错误:发出的邮件令收件人火冒三丈,其受刺激的程度远胜于一次艰难的电话通话。