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  1. If you don't paint those metal trimmings on your windows, they will soon rust away to nothing.
    窗户上那些金属花边如不上油漆,很快就会生锈烂掉。
  2. Iron is apt to rust.
    铁容易生锈。


rusting
[ noun ]
the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
<noun.process>


Rust \Rust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rusted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Rusting}.] [AS. rustian.]
1. To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

If gold ruste, what shall iron do? --Chaucer.

Our armors now may rust. --Dryden.

2. To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust;
also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

3. Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or
impaired by inaction.

Must I rust in Egypt? never more
Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?
--Dryden.

  1. Although my private theory is that we could construct our own Pompidou Center out of all the rusting bicycle tubing on exercise cycles ordered from catalogs, then dispatched with alacrity to the garage-wasteland, still in their cartons.
  2. On one side of a rusting metal divider stands the hulk of an unfinished T-72 tank.
  3. Five years ago Thursday, when a maid jostled Wilmot awake and summoned her to a window to see it, she thought the rusting, aging Mercedes I "an apparition," then realized otherwise.
  4. It is a city of rusting corrugated tin shanties and homes burned by government soldiers who were chased out by rebels of the National Patriotic Front.
  5. Art director Jon Hutman makes the broken-down St Louis factory a merry hell of rusting girders, dangling cables, splintered windows.
  6. As one of the kitchen's organizers, Ms. Patrick begged bakeries and supermarkets for castoffs and collected them in the trunk of her rusting 1973 Dodge Dart.
  7. Without formal agreement, disarmament gradually took place between the two countries, and forts became museums where rusting cannon still point accusingly but impotently in the direction of the nearby former enemy.
  8. Max Protetch Gallery, New York: "Alan Sonfist: Art of the Environment" is a 25-year overview of works by a site-specific artist who does not inflict hostile piles of rusting metal on squawking neighborhoods.
  9. Sculptor Jim Gary looks at the rusting oil pan from a junked automobile and he sees the gaping jaw of a dinosaur.
  10. Designed to evoke a rusting, fading America, it was released at the height of the 1982 recession, and Marsh makes sure to note its implications.
  11. The ship has been rusting in mud at its San Jacinto Battleground berth for 40 years.
  12. By its banks, scores of rusting freighters trapped eight years ago by the war were anchored two abreast.
  13. Major restoration will begin next month on the rusting Battleship Texas, the last of the dreadnoughts and the only surviving vessel that fought in both world wars.
  14. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, an old-timer who's a relic of the rusting party machine, has pledged only to "study" the issue.
  15. Here the modern sets of rooms are clad in rusting metal duckboards so that the whole complex resembles the tobacco drying sheds of the area.
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