rotting

1. V-ERG (使)腐烂;(使)腐败;(使)变质
   When food, wood, or another substance rots, or when something rots it, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed.
   1. If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos...
      如果我们不立刻把粮食卸下来，它们就会在筒仓里开始腐烂。
   2. Sugary canned drinks rot your teeth.
      罐装的甜饮料会腐蚀牙齿。
   3. ...the smell of rotting fish.
      鱼变质的气味
2. N-UNCOUNT （尤指木制品的）腐烂，腐败，腐朽
   If there is rot in something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart.
   1. Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor...
      调查发现一层地下的横梁大面积腐烂。
   2. Neither the timber frame nor metal chassis were protected against rot.
      木构架和金属底盘都没有采取防腐措施。
3. N-SING （逐步的）恶化，衰败
   You can use the rot to refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time when the rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse.
   1. In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time...
      很多学校的情况正开始变得越来越糟，教学水平一路下滑。
   2. The country's leaders are unwilling to take unpopular measures to stop the rot.
      该国领导人不愿采取不受欢迎的措施来阻止形势恶化。
4. VERB (尤指人在狱中)身心状况越来越糟，萎靡不振，颓废下去
   If you say that someone is being left to rot in a particular place, especially in a prison, you mean that they are being left there and their physical and mental condition is being allowed to get worse and worse.
   1. Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot on the dole.
      大多数政府就让那些长期失业的人领着救济金颓废度日。
5. N-UNCOUNT 胡说八道;胡扯;蠢话
   If you say that what someone is saying is rot, you mean that they are saying things that are untrue or stupid.
   1. What a load of pompous, pseudo-intellectual rot...
      真是自命不凡的伪知识分子的一派胡言！
   2. You do talk rot!
      你胡扯！
6. See also: dry rot

1. A village's entire beach and harbor can be fouled by a single rotting whale
   一只腐烂的死鲸就足以弄脏一个村子的整片海滩和港口。
2. If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos
   如果我们不立刻把粮食卸下来，它们就会在筒仓里开始腐烂。
3. The stench from rotting food is stomach-churning.
   腐烂食物散发的臭味让人反胃。
4. In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting.
   这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。
5. I saw children swimming in an old irrigation ditch alongside the rotting carcass of an ox.
   我看到孩子们在腐烂的牛尸旁边旧的灌溉渠里游泳。
6. Air-drying can prevent wood rotting away.
   木材经过风干可以防止腐烂。
7. Paint is put on wood as a protection against rotting.
   油漆涂在木材上，可以防止腐败。
8. I saw a rotting hulk on the beach.
   我在海滩上看见了一艘腐烂的废船。
9. How much methane and carbon dioxide might be released from the rotting permafrost?
   一个腐烂的永久冻土层，将释放出多少甲烷和二氧化碳？
10. Amid the rubble was an inflatable baby pool, a swing and a melon rotting in the summer sun.
    盛夏阳光下的废墟中，可以看到一个充气婴儿泳池、一个秋千和一个正在腐烂的瓜。
11. The stench from the rotting carcasses has begun to disturb residents of Brisbane and large towns.
    蝙蝠尸体腐烂的恶臭已经开始困扰布里斯班和较大城镇的居民。
12. You're nothing to me but rotting meat! I fought for you, I fought in vain.
    我曾为你们而战，但我却徒劳无功，所以现在溃散吧、逃跑吧、在痛苦中尖叫吧！
13. One only need think of rotting eggs.
    你只要想一下腐败的鸡蛋就知道了。
14. Mixed with soil, leaves, and grass clippings, the rotting food quickly stops smelling.
    用土壤、树叶和除下来的杂草混合，这些正在腐烂的东西的味道会立即消失。
15. Perhaps the worms still find you sweet. You're nothing to me but rotting meat!
    或许只有蛆虫才会喜爱你们，因为对我而言你们只是一块腐烂的肉！
16. You mean rotting and being eaten by coyotes.
    你是说腐烂了还有被土狼吃了。
17. Walk along the street, and you find garbage rotting in plastic bags that split open.
    沿街而行，你会发现裂开了的塑料袋中，垃圾散发着阵阵臭味。
18. Because the rotting flesh stank, the feet were powdered to mask the smell.
    如果脚上的肉腐烂发臭，就要在脚上涂矾粉来遮盖气味。
19. The stink of rotting seaweed was strong along the seashore.
    腐烂的海草发出的臭味在海滩边非常浓重。
20. What a revolting smell of rotting cabbage.
    腐烂卷心菜的气味真令人作呕。
21. As Peter Jenkins put it:'the party was rotting at the grass roots '.
    正如彼得詹金斯所说：“党的基层正在腐烂”。
22. They are everyday dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin.
    他们这些人由于寒冷、饥荒、污秽、害虫，天天都在死亡，烂掉。
23. Maybe his son is rotting in a cage somewhere?
    他儿子也许已经在某处的笼子里腐烂？
24. As he begins to tell you this story, you start picturing Peggy Sue as a rotting corpse.
    在他开始告诉你这些的时候，你开始想象Peggy，Sue是一个腐烂尸体的样子。
25. Here huge trunks of fallen timber lie rotting on the ground.
    这里，倒下的巨大树干在地上腐烂。
26. These rotting bananas are giving off a bad smell.
    这些腐烂的香蕉发出难闻的气味。
27. These termites collected their food from rotting vegetation on the ground.
    白蚁从地上腐化了的植物中收集食物。
28. The female buries her eggs in warm earth and rotting plant matter;
    雌性将她的蛋埋在温暖的地下或腐烂的植物中；
29. We turn into pieces of rotting flesh, decaying.
    我们变成一片片腐肉，渐渐腐烂。
30. My shoe's rotting here!
    我的鞋子被腐蚀了！

noun

1. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

   Synonym:    decompositionrotputrefaction