slather

英语

词源

未知，自19世纪起可考，意为“滑动”。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈslæðə(ɹ)/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• 韻部：-æðə(ɹ)

动词

slather (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 slathers，現在分詞 slathering，一般過去時及過去分詞 slathered) (及物)

1. （厚厚地）涂抹均匀

   I slathered jam on my toast.

   我在吐司上抹了果酱。

2. (常后接with) 在...上（厚厚地）涂抹均匀

   I slathered my toast with jam.

   我给吐司抹了果酱。

3. 浪费，挥霍

名词

slather (複數 slathers)

1. (烹飪) （用来涂抹食物的）浓酱汁
2. 口水 (尤指大量的)
   • 1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177:

     [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.

3. (常以複數形式) 大量
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, 章號 1, 出自 Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

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   • 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, ch. 24,

     In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

异序词

• Hartels, Hartles, Lathers, Stahler, halster, halters, harslet, lathers, thalers