英汉词典

dingy 基本解释

• adj. 昏暗的；肮脏的

dingy 词态变化

dingy 中文词源

可能来自dung, 粪。

dingy 英文词源

dingy

dingy: [18] Nobody is quite sure where dingy comes from, but the very occasional occurrence of ding or dinge as Middle English forms of dung suggests that it may originally have signified ‘dung-coloured’ (although if it came from such a source it might have been expected to rhyme with springy rather than stingy). Dung [OE] itself appears to go back ultimately to an Indo-European base *dhengh- denoting ‘covering’ (relatives include the Lithuanian verb dengti ‘cover’), so its etymological significance is ‘material spread over the earth (for fertilization)’ rather than ‘excrement’.
=> dung

dingy (adj.)

1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to dung. The noun dinge (1816) is a back-formation.

dingy 英文释义

1. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot;

"a miner's begrimed face"

"dingy linen"

"grimy hands"

"grubby little fingers"

"a grungy kitchen"

2. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;

"dirty" is often used in combination

"a dirty (or dingy) white"

"the muddied gray of the sea"

"muddy colors"

"dirty-green walls"

"dirty-blonde hair"

3. depressing in character or appearance;

"drove through dingy streets"

"the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens

"drab old buildings"

"a dreary mining town"

"gloomy tenements"

"sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

dingy 双语例句

1. He was living alone in a dingy bedsit in London.

他独自一人住在伦敦一间昏暗的客卧两用出租屋里。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Then he looked about upon a dingy, moth - eaten hotel lobby.

这时他朝这个阴暗 、 破烂的旅馆门厅四周看了看.

来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

3. He lives in a dingy room.

他住在一个肮脏的屋子里。

来自辞典例句

4. Shaw took me to his rather dingy office.

肖带我去了他那个陈旧昏暗的办公室。

来自辞典例句

5. It was a dingy affair -- wooden, dusty, hard.

这是一间阴暗的房间 -- 木地板, 满屋灰尘, 床铺很硬.

来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

dingy 实用场景例句

a dingy room/hotel

又黑又脏的房间 / 旅馆

牛津词典

dingy curtains/clothes

脏得发黑的窗帘 / 衣服

牛津词典

Shaw took me to his rather dingy office.

肖带我去了他那个陈旧昏暗的办公室。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...wallpaper with stripes of dingy yellow.

有暗淡的黄色条纹的墙纸

柯林斯高阶英语词典

At Barnes the river is muddy, dingy and tidal.

在巴恩斯,河水是那么浑浊 、 肮脏、多潮汐.

辞典例句

The hotel lies back of a dingy passage and forms a rectangle very a modern penitentiary.

这家旅馆位于一条阴暗的小道后面,呈一个长方形,同一所现代罪犯教养所十分相似.

期刊摘选

As you walk down a long, dingy corridor you can hear crying and moaning.

当你走过一条长长的, 邋遢的走廊时,你会听见哭泣声和呻吟声.

期刊摘选

In one of buildings Feliks rented a dingy room from an Irish woman called Bridget.

在其中一幢楼房里,费利克从一位名叫布里奇特的爱尔兰妇女那里租了一间昏暗的房间.

辞典例句

He set his alarm for three and stretched out on the dingy bed.

他把闹钟开到三点钟,然后在那张邋遢的床上躺下.

辞典例句

The dingy cottage was converted into a neat tasteful residence.

那间脏黑的小屋已变成一个整洁雅致的住宅.

辞典例句

Web sites posted photographs of dogs crammed into holding pens at dingy city pounds.

网站贴了狗被塞入邋遢的城市动物扣留所的候宰栏的照片.

期刊摘选

I know plenty of dingy women; I don't want to know any more.

那种不三不四的女人, 我见得多了,不想再认识她们.

辞典例句

He could have bought better clothes and moved out of his dingy room.

他本可以买些好衣服穿,搬出那间肮脏的房间.

期刊摘选

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone.

享格利·乔是个瘦弱,神经过敏的可怜虫,一张黑脸皮包骨头,没有什么肌肉.

辞典例句

It was a dingy stream; but upon this bright, spirited morning everything was become beautiful.

这条河本来很脏; 可是在晴朗 、 清爽的早晨,一切都显得美丽动人.

辞典例句

After much searching, I ran him to earth in a dingy hotel.

找了很久, 我终于在一家肮脏的旅舍找到他.

期刊摘选

To exploit this demand, pawnbrokers are shedding their dingy, Dickensian image.

为了开拓市场, 典当商人正在试图摆脱他们过去阴暗的狄更斯时代的形象.

期刊摘选

We got married, rather unromantically, in a dingy office in the town hall.

我们在市政厅的一间昏暗的办公室里结婚了, 一点也不浪漫.

期刊摘选

He stepped to the platform and paused a little dingy station, a small crowd of travelers.

他跨到月台上,停了停,只看见一个阴沉沉的小车站和一小群旅客.

期刊摘选

It was a street of dingy houses huddled together.

这是一条挤满了破旧房子的街巷.

辞典例句

Dull dingy yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.

暗黄色代表警告 、 衰落 、 疾病和嫉妒.

期刊摘选

The doomed leaves pass through on their way to dingy , and yellow, and red.

叶子注定要由暗淡而泛黄, 然后变红.

辞典例句

It a rather dingy night, although a fair number of stars were out.

这是个昏暗的夜晚, 虽然天空中有相当数量的星星.

期刊摘选

Opposite this grandeur, on the Surrey side, were the dingy warehouses and factories of Lambeth.

在这壮观的景物对面, 在萨里这一边, 是兰贝斯的脏污的栈房和一家家工厂.

辞典例句

Rooms in cheap hotels are often dingy.

在低级旅馆中全是又黑又脏的房间.

期刊摘选

The poor were housed in dingy, rotting buildings.

穷人住在昏暗的朽烂的房子里.

辞典例句

William wore a big bush hat as a 6 disguise and we went into dingy pub.

威廉戴了一顶大阔边帽作为伪装,来到一家肮脏的酒吧.

期刊摘选

He lives in a dingy room.

他住在一个肮脏的屋子里。

辞典例句