dusty的意思|dusty的解释-里氏词典

dusty ['dʌstɪ]

a. 灰尘多的, 无聊的, 含糊的, 粉末状的

The dusty road made the travelers dusty too.
满是尘土的路弄得行人也满面尘土了。
My eye alighted on a dusty old book at the back of the shelf.
我偶然发现在书架後面有一本满是灰尘的旧书.
He gave me a dusty answer.
他给了我一个含糊的回答。

dusty
dustier, dustiest

[ adj ]

covered with a layer of dust

<adj.all>

a dusty pile of books

lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new

<adj.all>

moth-eaten theories about race

stale news

dusty \dust"y\ (d[u^]st"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Dustier}
(d[u^]st"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Dustiest}
(d[u^]st"[i^]*[e^]st).] [AS. dystig. See {Dust}.]
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to
dust.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. --Shak.

2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.

{Dusty miller} (Bot.), a plant ({Cineraria maritima}); -- so
called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

When he gave tapes for mental rehearsal to Paul Rendall and Jeff Probyn, England's props, he received a dusty answer.
Hindu priests left their temple, doctors stopped work at a leper clinic, children cut classes and motorists left the dusty roads to see the man who may be the next prime minister.
In the flat, dusty countryside near the front, women tilled and watered the fields while men repaired war-damaged buildings or built new houses to replace those lost in heavy Iraqi bombing.
"It's something that you can't help feeling bitter or upset about," said Helen Human, the Dallas actress who portrayed the bossy and buxom "Peach." The epic depicted a cattle drive from dusty Lonesome Dove, Texas, to Montana.
The role of Nielsen was less clear, with Pezim saying she "will represent the women's side of things." Great Britain's Princess Anne walked narrow and dusty streets and opened a health clinic for the poor on the third day of her visit to Ecuador.
If further research proves the seed's benefits, this dusty farm district could become the epicenter of a health-food fad to rival all fads since cod-liver oil.
And there is a worry too about McLeish's translation: mostly admirably accessible and witty, it is sometimes so slangy that you feel the production is unnecessarily intent on convincing you that this is not some dusty old classic.
School closures in effect at least through Thursday affected more than 5,000 students, partly for health reasons and partly to keep the dusty grit outside.
The records also show fires in 1984 and 1986 were attributed to careless smoking in dusty conditions, and a 1976 fire was started by machinery sparks.
But in the garages, storefronts and dusty industrial parks of rural America, they have some woes peculiar to their setting.
Maybe it's because it has no presentable hotels or restaurants. Or because of the disrepair into which most of the once-elegant houses have fallen, their intricately designed wooden ceilings, marble baths and harem areas for women left dark and dusty.
On some tours, the men patrol the Syrian border or spend a dusty month training in tanks.
There was another problem: no one knows who is responsible for the dozens of dusty paintings that line the Statehouse walls.
With shouts of "the spiteful America is the cause of the world's misfortunes!" the crowd wound its way past garbage piles in the dusty alleys of Beirut's southern suburbs.
He was nervous: he had walked around with his ideas in these dusty files for 40 years, and here was someone who wanted to know.
Reporters on a government-organized tour of the war front Thursday saw the bodies of dozens of Iranian soldiers scattered on this dusty plain along with their light weapons, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and hand grenades.
The letters ACM stretch across Brazil's north-eastern state of Bahia, visible on posters along each roadside and in every dusty village.
"All we could do was just sit in our dusty chairs and gaze at each other through the fog that filled the room and watch the fog settle slowly and silently, covering everything," said one woman from Garden City, Kan.
He imposed an indefinite nighttime curfew on the dusty capital of Africa's largest country, one-third the size of the continental United States.
For all that, the piece landed unperformed in a dusty archive after Bologna refused to supply a chorus and orchestra.
But the authority is rifling dusty files for inventions it can sell to other industries.
Stern-looking men and women in yellow hats and red armbands are stationed on street corners for bicycle traffic control and to discourage littering and spitting _ a prevalent habit in this dusty city _ with the threat of 5 yuan ($1) fines.
Las Vegas has grown from a dusty town of a few resorts into a booming metropolis of more than 600,000 people, with nearly 60,000 hotel and motel rooms to accomodate tourists.
On the Israeli side, a road is patrolled by Israeli trucks and a dusty strip is swept frequently so that any footprints can be detected.
Just now, the plant itself is a dusty construction site, surrounded by mud and weeds.
Some houses, half-hidden amid dusty olive trees, flew black flags from rooftops in mourning for the 19 Arabs killed by police on the sacred Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Oct. 8.
But what else could she conclude, after shaking the painful truth out of all those dusty old documents with the same relentless vigor she demonstrated at 95 in her humble kitchen in her hometown of Marshall, shaking a nest of spiders out of her toaster?
Dukakis received a friendly greeting from the hot and dusty crowd, although some in the audience waved signs supporting Republican George Bush.
And if we come back, we won't leave." At least 500,000 people gathered on the dusty grounds at the Congress Party rally.
Honda, Rover's partner, saviour and 20 percent shareholder, was left gasping in BAe's dusty slipstream. The story appears to be far from over yet.

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