Definition of dirty in English:

dirty

adjectivedirtier, dirtiest ˈdəːtiˈdərdi

1Covered or marked with an unclean substance.
肮脏的，不干净的
a tray of dirty cups and saucers
一盘子的脏杯子和碟子。
her boots were dirty
她的靴子很脏。
Example sentencesExamples
- The toilet bowls were unclean and the floor was wet and dirty, and covered in rubbish.
- I walked into the washroom to take a shower, I felt so dirty.
- Don't let paper get too dirty before cleaning it.
- It was wrinkled almost beyond repair and, because he hadn't taken off his shoes, covered in dirty footprints.
- Mr. Brown asked as he noticed that her clothes were already very dirty.
- You do not want baby to suffer from skin allergies from dirty bed linen.
- I got my clothes very dirty and wet because it started raining at the job site.
- "We handle extremely dirty linens, " Flores said.
- Do you run the dishwasher with less than a full load of dirty dishes?
- Most of the cells were dirty and the walls covered with graffiti.
- I just had a bath to relax and because I was filthy dirty… covered in paint and wallpaper paste, and feet black with newsprint off the newspapers I'd put on the floor.
- They laugh at our strange accent, and condemn our town for being dirty.
- Hot water is only necessary for really dirty laundry or to sterilize clothing from bacteria and viruses.
- Throw more dirty laundry, shop towels, or other towels on the water.
- Her dress was dirty, ripped and covered in blood.
- Steph looked up, hands dirty with dry mud and knees grass stained.
- Meanwhile the bus station toilets are dirty and the baby changing facilities broken.
- Hands are dirty and things to be kept away from your face.
- I usually drive a different vehicle every day, so they normally don't get too dirty.
- In his experience, nature tended to make one dirty, smelly and tired.
Synonyms
soiled, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, spotted, smudged, cloudy, muddy, dusty, sooty
unclean, sullied, impure, tarnished, polluted, contaminated, defiled, foul, unhygienic, insanitary, unsanitary
informal cruddy, yucky, icky
British informal manky, gungy, grotty
Northern Irish informal bogging
literary befouled, besmirched, begrimed
rare feculent
1. 1.1 Causing a person or place to become unclean.
  使脏的
  farming is a hard, dirty job
  耕作是又苦又脏的活。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too.
  It is to be hoped that some way can be found to reassure the stall handlers that their jobs are safe and that they are given the appropriate rewards for a dirty and dangerous job.
  She complained about having done dirty jobs like shredding, and I bid her good day and thought of my friends who might be happy to have some of these slides.
  The changes were not all bad, Brian concedes - mining was a dangerous and dirty job.
  The feeling of compassion was actually based on the idea we were leading much happier and superior lives than they were able to and that we looked down upon the dirty and hard jobs they performed.
  A large Haitian community, meanwhile, does the dirty jobs that Bahamians prefer to avoid.
  ‘My father was a steel worker all his life, in a filthy, dirty, dangerous job,’ he says.
  They were dirty jobs, and the money wasn't good, but I thought it was great, and the key thing was having a good time.
  Fridays were taken up with jobbing printing and the dirty job of recycling the lead used to make up the type.
  When you start out, you have to do the dirty jobs, even if it's washing the bikes or keeping watch.
  Fewer dirty utensils in the sink mean smoother hands for the housewives who are forced to do this dirty job.
  It may make the international competition tougher but if Britain can win the fight for skilled jobs and leave the dirty manufacturing jobs to others, it will be a far nicer and cleaner place to live.
  You've got to love to fly to do a job that dangerous and dirty.
  If you had a dirty job and your hands were filthy and the call came to roll eggs, there was little opportunity to wash your hands.
  Politics is often said to be a dirty job, and the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Alan Beith got his hands right into the muck to help launch the party's York environment campaign.
2. 1.2 (of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout.
  （核武器）产生大量放射性沉降物的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads.
2(of an activity) dishonest; dishonourable.
（行为）不诚实的；不体面的
he had a reputation for dirty dealing
他有做事龌龊的坏名声。
Example sentencesExamples
- He had been involved in some dirty dealings with the loan sharks.
- In many cases, corrupt officials collude with each other in an entangled network to fend off probes into their dirty dealings.
- The story is a family affair against a backdrop of dirty dealings in the underground transport system.
- With each new leak, more evidence of the dirty dealings in the run-up to the war is exposed.
- Under interrogation, he's not likely to rat on his fedayeen, lead us to his hidden billions abroad or tell the truth about dirty dealings with France and Russia.
- However, they've rarely turned their eye on themselves to assess just what sort of dirty dealing may be going on in-house.
- Greenpeace has a good info page about the environmental impact ship-breaking - as one would imagine, this is a dangerous, dirty activity.
- It is hard to imagine otherwise. As far as dirty politics is considered, I fear this is just the start.
- You could fill a book on the scandal and dirty dealing that used to operate in Burgundy: every winemaker from the region will tell you his own tale of skulduggery.
- The Zeta Affair was the latest in a long line of bowing to whoever holds the power and secretly keeping these dirty dealings away from public scrutiny.
- But, on the whole, the publicity frenzy and dirty dealing that have marked previous years have been absent.
- AIG was hardly alone, however, in its dirty dealings.
- But it doesn't obligate them to enforce the terms, which is where the intimidation and dirty dealing starts.
- A group of students asked to conduct a straw poll seemed as keen to vote for Putin as they were to move abroad to work as computing engineers, and considered politics a dirty business.
- Over the past few years, professionals in the finance business have found themselves held responsible for the dirty dealings which go on under their noses.
- Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies.
- They like things like slimey frogs, dirty activities, sticks and stones, and throwing those sticks and stones at other people and things.
- Rumors of dirty dealings had always clung to him, but Nixon had always managed to keep substantive proof of corruption out of the media.
- Matt had done his research on Kiefer, and knew what dirty dealings he had done.
- How much did rumors of past cocaine use and dirty business dealings hurt George W. Bush?
Synonyms
unfair, dishonest, deceitful, unscrupulous, dishonourable, unsporting, ungentlemanly, below the belt, unethical, unprincipled, immoral
crooked, illegal, fraudulent
rotten, corrupt, double-dealing, Janus-faced, treacherous, underhand, sly, crafty, cunning, wily, devious, Machiavellian, sneaky, guileful, conniving, designing, calculating
nasty, unpleasant, mean, base, low, vile, contemptible, despicable, cowardly, shameful, ignominious, sordid, beggarly, squalid
informal low-down
British informal out of order, not cricket
1. 2.1US informal Using illegal drugs.
  〈美，非正式〉使用非法药品的；使用违禁药物的
2. 2.2informal attributive Used to emphasize one's disgust for someone or something.
  〈非正式〉讨厌的（用来强调对某人或某物的厌恶）
  you dirty rat!
  你这个讨厌的家伙！
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whatever the provocation, I have to say that it is a pretty low-down dirty thing to rat on someone for surfing-at-work to their employer.
  Listen up, all you good-for-nothing, lying, cheating dirty stop-outs… you cross this woman at your peril.
  I mean, he is a dirty rat, he is a key enemy figure that has to be taken down, but there's other insurgent organizations involved.
  Of all the dirty, rotten, disgusting things you've done, this has to be one of the lowest.
  This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust.
3Concerned with sex in a lewd or obscene way.
下流的；色情的
he told a stream of dirty jokes
他讲了一连串黄色笑话。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thanks be to the power of human libido, there is still a massive pile of really dirty, explicit, twisted pornography on the Net.
- This disgusting, dirty pervert has started it again.
- As offenses go, dirty jokes just don't register with me any more.
- He shared her unconventional love of rude words and dirty jokes.
- Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me.
- And I'm supposed to never crack a dirty joke or flirt with a cute guy either.
- I never admitted it, but I had a HUGE crush on that naughty boy who told dirty jokes.
- Adults can tell you dirty jokes and you are allowed to laugh at them
- In fact, 63.5 per cent of her participants admitted they've sent a dirty joke or sexually explicit email.
- If people think it's obscene it's their dirty minds.
- It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning.
- The men accepted me as a peer without question and did not tell dirty jokes or make any inappropriate suggestions around me.
- He tells dirty joke after dirty joke and makes a lot of sexual references in every conversation.
- I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones.
- The men are just like animals, because sex and dirty pornography (doing things) are the only goals in a intimate relation with a female.
- I mean, they tell all sorts of dirty jokes and discuss lewd things in language I hate to admit I get to listen to all around me, but let someone act like a human being and everyone freaks.
- Not that I'm not in favour of a crude joke or a dirty joke but only if it's a really clever funny one.
- He called the safer-sex information ‘something people go buy at dirty bookstores.’
- The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene.
Synonyms
indecent, obscene, rude, vulgar, smutty, coarse, crude, filthy, bawdy, suggestive, ribald, racy, salacious, risqué, prurient, offensive, lewd, lascivious, licentious, pornographic, explicit, X-rated
North American off colour
informal naughty, blue
euphemistic adult
4(of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant.
（天气）恶劣的，有暴风雨的
Example sentencesExamples
- I've never seen such vicious, dirty weather give up so easily.
- Yes - to compound our sickness we picked some dirty weather.
- Where is the obligatory miasma of old industry and dirty weather, you wonder; the thunderheads stripped of silver linings?
- How else would she describe it, A spot of dirty weather?
Synonyms
unpleasant, nasty, foul, inclement, rough, bad
stormy, squally, gusty, windy, blowy, rainy
misty, gloomy, murky, overcast, louring
5(of a colour) not bright or pure; dull.
（颜色）不鲜明的，不亮的，不纯净的
the sea was a waste of dirty grey
大海是灰蒙蒙的一片汪洋。
Example sentencesExamples
- The image on the photograph bubbles and glows, then fades, until nothing is left but a dull, dirty white space.
- His hair is kind of a dirty blonde colour, though more towards the brown, again.
- The buildings are large, rectangular, and have a dirty grey colour.
- The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
- It's in black, too (I always hated that dirty grey look, if I'm honest).
- His fluttering eyes look at me, small slits of sky-blue against the black of his lashes and dirty tan of his skin.
- The body was like snow, which had gotten that dirty grey colour.
- The carpet is a dirty beige - my shoes (too small… children's shoes) are muddy, and the laces trail behind my feet.
- Sid's door was a dirty brown colour and John couldn't help but wonder if it had been painted that way or if years of neglect had produced this effect.
- Colors range from a dirty tan to yellow and occasionally reddish-orange.
- The blacks are solid, though the whites can appear a bit dirty by comparison.
- Looks fairly old with a brown roof and dirty white for the colour of the house's walls.
- The Ungaro dress looks like taffeta and has a peach-colored shimmer; the dummy is painted in an exact shade of dirty beige.
- This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour.
- I drop my head, allowing my eyes to wash over the dirty colour of the floorboards.
- The evil witch loves dirty green colour and makes sure the whole coffee house is decorated in that colour.
- The walls were a pale yellow; the carpet was a dirty cream colour.
- He was a good head taller with bright blue eyes and dirty blonde spiked hair.
- The floor was old and dirty beige carpet, and the walls were painted off white but where chipped and peeling.
- He turned and there was Beth, in the dirty cream coloured Ute.
Synonyms
dull, cloudy, muddy, dingy, dark, not clear, not pure, not bright
1. 5.1 (of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone.
  （流行音乐）音调失真的；刺耳的
  Nirvana's dirty guitar sound
  涅槃乐队刺耳的吉他声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals.
  He tends to favor cut-up dirty 70s funk guitar samples that he uses mostly to punctuate his chunky beats.
  Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days.
  I don't think there has ever been a more filthy dirty gorgeously distorted sound recorded in the whole history of the recording business…
  On their scathing fifteen-song disc, they do everything they can to bring the danger back to loud, fast, dirty guitar rock.
  A string section soars through the song and is accompanied by some dirty break beat loops.
  This is back bedroom electronica at its best, full of big chunky breakbeats, Radiophonic Workshop bleepy things and dirty vocoder interjections.
  LCD Soundsystem is first and foremost, a dance-rock party album full of dirty sounds and nasty grooves.
  Taken as a whole the album doesn't sound as underground and dirty as you mighty expect, there's one ear here to the commercial market.
  The dirty, surging guitar behind Milkshake gave it a harder rock feel than the original pop version.
  Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks.
  Having conquered their own unique brand of dirty, beautifully awkward garage rock, Clinic was left to seek out new castles to storm.
  With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys.
  You can check out a couple of MP3s on their site but if you like the sound of The Verve filtered through dirty blues rock then you won't go wrong.
  However, in all honesty European have a buzz all of their own driven by great rinky dink, cute/evil keyboard lines and dirty but super melodic guitar hooks.
  Really, a great disc for anyone who loves deep down, sometimes dirty music.
  Having seen them live I know how dirty and raw some of these songs can sound, and unfortunately the studio recordings lose this a little.
  This is dirty, ragga house at its best and picks up from where ‘Super Stylin’ left off.
  It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub.
  Even the dirty garage guitar sounds perfect writhing in a bed of electronica on ‘Accelerator.’

adverbˈdəːti

British informal

as submodifier Used for emphasis.
〈英，非正式〉很，非常（用来表示强调）
a dirty great slab of stone
一块非常大的石板。
Example sentencesExamples
- Celtic, at least, know they have a dirty great problem to solve as they head into next week's Old Firm derby.
- If you deface and wreck your countryside with dirty great turbines it is obvious that you will turn visitors away.
- They are the liars-in-chief, the gatekeepers of vaults of dirty big secrets which wait for the deployment of journalistic diligence and courage to be uncovered.
- Because there's no dirty great ball and chain to drag around, The Monsters get to punch home the point time after time without needing to worry if their hair looks good, or how they fit in.
- The zones earmarked for growth are poised like three swords of Damocles around London's periphery, each one centred on its own source of sustenance: a dirty great road.

verbdirtying, dirties, dirtiedˈdəːtiˈdərdi

[with object]

Make dirty.
she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels
她不喜欢他弄脏她漂亮干净的毛巾。
Example sentencesExamples
- We dirty our streets, we break traffic rules, we torment women, we seek dowry, and we discard our old; we wait for our share of impending trouble.
- She accuses them of spoiling the sofa and dirtying the linen.
- Mud dragged out by vehicles and heavy machinery entering and exiting the site have also turned the road into a mudbath, dirtying cars and school busses using the route.
- He told his secretary to run outside and dirty his shoes in the grass and mud.
- Pillars turning into arches kept the roof from falling on those who passed through the halls and the floor that once upon a time was solid now a muddy slush dirties everything it touches.
- It is a little walk down a muddy path but the waterfall is a sight worth dirtying your shoes for.
- I dirty every pot and use the sink like a dumping ground.
- Herbs she planted too, though their names are lost to her daughters who have never liked to dirty their hands.
- Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
- Just one month ago, Caterina Bayes was so afraid of dirtying her spotless Colchester home, she refused to let relatives and friends across the doorstep.
- The banks were muddy and dirtied the boy's tunic even more as he knelt to wash the sweat from his face.
- When baby dirties herself, clean her up right away.
- Further the render in the area close to the ground will be dirtied by splashes from the ground when it rains.
- Discarded cigarette butts strewn outside Mayo's pubs are dirtying our towns, according to a Mayo litter warden.
- The sins range from dirtying the floor with urine (usually by puppies or because they have not been taken outside because the owner is too busy or tired), barking, coming when called or greeting the owner with enthusiasm.
- Wilbur came crawling out from his hiding spot with soot dirtying his face.
- His short blond hair was dirtied by the soil and I could tell by the stench of the air that he was bleeding.
Synonyms
soil, stain, muddy, blacken, mess up, spoil, tarnish, taint, make dirty
mark, spatter, bespatter, smudge, smear, daub, spot, splash, splatter
sully, pollute, foul, defile
literary befoul, besmirch, begrime

Phrases

the dirty end of the stick

informal The difficult or unpleasant part of a task or situation.
〈非正式，主英〉（任务或形势）困难（或讨厌）的部分
Example sentencesExamples
- From where I stand, I think our entire region would end up with the dirty end of the stick, so I think we all need to join hands and chant ‘Give Peace a Chance!’
- It is time that non-white nations, which usually take the dirty end of the stick in such matters, impressed on the ICC to frame tougher rules than merely cutting match fees and points.
- I personally hope so because in spite of pouring millions of pounds into this corrupt organisation which has not been elected by the British people, we are still getting the dirty end of the stick.
- O'Donoghue's suggestion that there is something mythical about the price of living in this country is not just insulting to the millions of people who have been left with the dirty end of the stick - it is also breathtaking in its arrogance.
- It now seems most likely that Global Trust Bank shareholders will be left holding the dirty end of the stick.
- And when he gets the dirty end of the stick from an umpire of the elite panel, he has good reason to feel upset.

do the dirty on someone

informal Cheat or betray someone.
〈英，非正式〉欺骗；背叛（某人）
Example sentencesExamples
- In movies we get to vicariously fight back against the things or people that do the dirty on us.
- Forget ‘for richer, for poorer’ and just remember the profit warnings seen in recent years - companies show little remorse when they do the dirty on you.
- Strand, which he promised dutifully not to visit, not after his last visit there ended in those distressing Bankrupts Anonymous meetings, did the dirty on him.
- Also profiled is California's arch-conservative talk radio host Melanie Morgan, and Soweto's Cheaters, which hires private detectives to find out if its listeners' partners are doing the dirty on them.
- Now he regrets doing the dirty on Duff, however, and is desperate to get back with her.
- ‘Then there's drug-loving drummer Lucy and mood guitarist Joe whose girlfriend Kate has no idea he's doing the dirty on her
- ‘Well,’ he began, sliding his arm around her waist, ‘Mike-that's my brother by the way - found out that Sophie - his ex-fiancée - was doing the dirty on him with the best man.
Synonyms
betray, cheat, double-cross, defraud, trick, hoodwink, mislead, deceive, swindle, break one's promise to, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play false, fail, let down

get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands)

1Do manual, menial, or other hard work.
干体力活，干粗活，干重活
Example sentencesExamples
- The Midwest is full of doughy white guys that love to get their hands dirty and work hard, so that shouldn't be a problem.
- People think that if you go straight into football you don't appreciate finishing early, that you don't have to get your hands dirty or work hard.
- After a life working in data communications for British Telecom, British Gas and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he's now swapped the ordinary office life for a job that really involves getting his hands dirty.
- And those who do have jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber are more likely than anywhere else to be getting their hands dirty in manual or semi-skilled jobs.
- They are asked by their parents to choose a way of life that involves getting their hands dirty for very little or no money.
- I never forgot where I'd come from, and I was never too good that I couldn't get my hands dirty and do menial jobs.
- The Lowry managers seemed happy to get their hands dirty, though some found it hard going.
- Members of the Lions Club got their hands dirty on Thursday night, when they donned gloves and picked up shovels for a clean up of Samson's Lane and Rossglass Beach.
- Don't tell me you once got your hands dirty between VCA and graphic design.
- And it's getting harder to convince high school students to get their hands dirty when they've come through a system which measures success in terms of a university degree and the size of the pay packet.
1. 1.1informal Become involved in dishonest or dishonourable activity.
  〈非正式〉卷入不诚实（或不名誉）的行动
  Example sentencesExamples
  Have there been trends where you feel like you're getting your hands dirty by even involving yourself?
  Elections are a dirty business, and Brown makes no apology for getting his hands dirty.
  We weren't even sure whether we wanted to get involved, get our hands dirty with politics.

play dirty

informal Act in a dishonest or unfair way.
〈非正式〉做事不诚实（或不公平）
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course, even when somebody plays dirty, losing is losing and it's not long before nobody cares about the details.
- ‘Now, despite all the hopes for military reform, things have returned to square one with the TNI playing dirty, vulgar games and ignoring the political aspirations of the civilian population,’ he said.
- They could play big; they could not play at all; and they may turn up to find Republicans playing dirty.
- The bad news is that Republicans are doing what they always do: playing dirty.
- During the next election campaign don't be surprised when Labour plays dirty.
- You can, without even resorting to playing dirty.
- Gene Hackman stars as the infamous Rankin Fitch, a jury selection specialist not afraid to play dirty if it gets the results his clients pay him big bucks for.
- He's been giving out specifics, but your folks have been playing dirty.
- ‘I play the game hard but there is no way I would devalue the honour of playing for my country by playing dirty,’ Harrison said.
- Tesco plays dirty, it seems, when it comes to moving in on a new location.

talk dirty

informal Talk about sex in a coarse or salacious way.
Example sentencesExamples
- The film also benefits from some sparkling performances, the pick of which comes from Winslet's Tula as the sassy, sexy and, quite frankly, incendiary femme fatale with a penchant for talking dirty.
- Then, of course, there's cybersex, which mostly consists of talking dirty to each other.
- They watch the cable-access queen talk dirty, fondle herself and advise callers on their sex lives.
- She talks dirty and suggestively, and most of the men just ignore her - but she is particularly forceful if a man doesn't respond to her.
- She says that it is a daily occurrence to be invited to engage in cybersex, or to talk dirty, but she rejects these offers without hesitation.
- In the USA where lawsuits are the nation's favorite hobby, talking dirty to a woman is called Sexual Harassment and is backed up by stiff penalties.
- The beauty of talking dirty in the sack is that you communicate it's not only your body which is aroused but your senses and mind as well.
- Women who effortlessly talk dirty are exciting and hold the promise of amazing sex.
- My girlfriend always asks me to talk dirty to her during our lovemaking.
- The Wau Wau Sisters dress up as schoolgirls and sing mildly blasphemous songs, turn tricks (circus tricks), pile on the lesbian lipstick chic, and talk dirty and giggle at the same time.

Derivatives

dirtily

adverb ˈdəːtɪliˈdərdəli

And there it was, right between the house and a barn sitting dirtily and conspicuously.
Example sentencesExamples
- He looked at me dirtily, but ripped the box open.
- Terry dirtily shot me an angry look that said ‘Why couldn't you have just listened to me?’
- But as anyone who has had to deal with them knows, the Liberals' squeaky clean image is quite wrong: they fight viciously and dirtily.
- The men were still miners, digging dirtily with hard enthusiasm.
- ‘I like it when you call me daddy,’ he joked dirtily.
- And yes, ok, that could be taken really dirtily…
- Sure, Cavendish can shake and shimmy with the best of them and growl as dirtily as West as she delivers lines like ‘I used to be Snow White - but I drifted.’
- They rolled on the muddy ground for quite some time before Bridget ran inside the house with Mark trailing dirtily behind her.
- There must be something wrong with me, darkly, dirtily wrong.

dirtiness

noun ˈdəːtɪnəs

The failure of dirt availability or habitat selection to explain the timing of male dirtiness suggests that males delay dirtying their plumage to obtain some benefit from conspicuous plumage.
Example sentencesExamples
- I thought that untidiness and dirtiness were the characteristics of cities in some underdeveloped country of the past, like Calcutta, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro or elsewhere, but not here in Australia.
- It feels like no matter how much I wash myself over and over again, the dirtiness will never go away.
- Nevertheless he wrote down our request for a new blanket and another pillow on a post-it note, and told us he'd have housekeeping look into the issue of dirtiness, and we went on our way.
- I didn't understand what had to be clean-my feet felt fine and I couldn't smell anything to suggest dirtiness, but I suppose the Lady is very picky and wanted the stalls to be super clean.
- Despite the dirtiness, we did do our fair share of sightseeing.
- It's cool and clean, with none of the jaded heat and dirtiness that will fill it once the streets become choked with traffic.
- It is the final product of a world gone mad trying to create Utopia; a place free of human dirtiness, a kind of ethnic cleansing that occurs when you allow people to completely remove humanity for absolute materialism.
- She said that foreigners cannot get used to the dirtiness and lack of organisation on streets but ‘the rest is very enjoyable’.
- It then becomes a matter of determining the threshold of dirtiness that triggers a vacuuming.

Rhymes

Alberti, Bertie, flirty, shirty, thirty

Definition of dirty in US English:

dirty

adjectiveˈdərdiˈdərdē

1Covered or marked with an unclean substance.
肮脏的，不干净的
a tray of dirty cups and saucers
一盘子的脏杯子和碟子。
her boots were dirty
她的靴子很脏。
Example sentencesExamples
- I usually drive a different vehicle every day, so they normally don't get too dirty.
- The toilet bowls were unclean and the floor was wet and dirty, and covered in rubbish.
- Meanwhile the bus station toilets are dirty and the baby changing facilities broken.
- Steph looked up, hands dirty with dry mud and knees grass stained.
- "We handle extremely dirty linens, " Flores said.
- Hands are dirty and things to be kept away from your face.
- Don't let paper get too dirty before cleaning it.
- I just had a bath to relax and because I was filthy dirty… covered in paint and wallpaper paste, and feet black with newsprint off the newspapers I'd put on the floor.
- I walked into the washroom to take a shower, I felt so dirty.
- Most of the cells were dirty and the walls covered with graffiti.
- It was wrinkled almost beyond repair and, because he hadn't taken off his shoes, covered in dirty footprints.
- Hot water is only necessary for really dirty laundry or to sterilize clothing from bacteria and viruses.
- Do you run the dishwasher with less than a full load of dirty dishes?
- Her dress was dirty, ripped and covered in blood.
- Throw more dirty laundry, shop towels, or other towels on the water.
- I got my clothes very dirty and wet because it started raining at the job site.
- Mr. Brown asked as he noticed that her clothes were already very dirty.
- They laugh at our strange accent, and condemn our town for being dirty.
- You do not want baby to suffer from skin allergies from dirty bed linen.
- In his experience, nature tended to make one dirty, smelly and tired.
Synonyms
soiled, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, spotted, smudged, cloudy, muddy, dusty, sooty
1. 1.1 Causing a person or environment to become unclean.
  使脏的
  farming is a hard, dirty job
  耕作是又苦又脏的活。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were dirty jobs, and the money wasn't good, but I thought it was great, and the key thing was having a good time.
  The feeling of compassion was actually based on the idea we were leading much happier and superior lives than they were able to and that we looked down upon the dirty and hard jobs they performed.
  ‘My father was a steel worker all his life, in a filthy, dirty, dangerous job,’ he says.
  When you start out, you have to do the dirty jobs, even if it's washing the bikes or keeping watch.
  She complained about having done dirty jobs like shredding, and I bid her good day and thought of my friends who might be happy to have some of these slides.
  You've got to love to fly to do a job that dangerous and dirty.
  If you had a dirty job and your hands were filthy and the call came to roll eggs, there was little opportunity to wash your hands.
  It is to be hoped that some way can be found to reassure the stall handlers that their jobs are safe and that they are given the appropriate rewards for a dirty and dangerous job.
  The changes were not all bad, Brian concedes - mining was a dangerous and dirty job.
  It may make the international competition tougher but if Britain can win the fight for skilled jobs and leave the dirty manufacturing jobs to others, it will be a far nicer and cleaner place to live.
  Fridays were taken up with jobbing printing and the dirty job of recycling the lead used to make up the type.
  A large Haitian community, meanwhile, does the dirty jobs that Bahamians prefer to avoid.
  Politics is often said to be a dirty job, and the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Alan Beith got his hands right into the muck to help launch the party's York environment campaign.
  A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too.
  Fewer dirty utensils in the sink mean smoother hands for the housewives who are forced to do this dirty job.
2. 1.2 (of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout.
  （核武器）产生大量放射性沉降物的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads.
3. 1.3 (of a color) not bright, clear, or pure.
  （颜色）不鲜明的，不亮的，不纯净的
  the sea was a waste of dirty gray
  大海是灰蒙蒙的一片汪洋。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The body was like snow, which had gotten that dirty grey colour.
  I drop my head, allowing my eyes to wash over the dirty colour of the floorboards.
  It's in black, too (I always hated that dirty grey look, if I'm honest).
  His fluttering eyes look at me, small slits of sky-blue against the black of his lashes and dirty tan of his skin.
  The blacks are solid, though the whites can appear a bit dirty by comparison.
  Colors range from a dirty tan to yellow and occasionally reddish-orange.
  The buildings are large, rectangular, and have a dirty grey colour.
  He turned and there was Beth, in the dirty cream coloured Ute.
  The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
  His hair is kind of a dirty blonde colour, though more towards the brown, again.
  The Ungaro dress looks like taffeta and has a peach-colored shimmer; the dummy is painted in an exact shade of dirty beige.
  The floor was old and dirty beige carpet, and the walls were painted off white but where chipped and peeling.
  He was a good head taller with bright blue eyes and dirty blonde spiked hair.
  This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour.
  Looks fairly old with a brown roof and dirty white for the colour of the house's walls.
  The image on the photograph bubbles and glows, then fades, until nothing is left but a dull, dirty white space.
  The evil witch loves dirty green colour and makes sure the whole coffee house is decorated in that colour.
  The carpet is a dirty beige - my shoes (too small… children's shoes) are muddy, and the laces trail behind my feet.
  The walls were a pale yellow; the carpet was a dirty cream colour.
  Sid's door was a dirty brown colour and John couldn't help but wonder if it had been painted that way or if years of neglect had produced this effect.
  Synonyms
  dull, cloudy, muddy, dingy, dark, not clear, not pure, not bright
4. 1.4 Concerned with sex in an unpleasant or obscene way.
  下流的；色情的
  he told a stream of dirty jokes
  他讲了一连串黄色笑话。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I mean, they tell all sorts of dirty jokes and discuss lewd things in language I hate to admit I get to listen to all around me, but let someone act like a human being and everyone freaks.
  As offenses go, dirty jokes just don't register with me any more.
  In fact, 63.5 per cent of her participants admitted they've sent a dirty joke or sexually explicit email.
  He tells dirty joke after dirty joke and makes a lot of sexual references in every conversation.
  Thanks be to the power of human libido, there is still a massive pile of really dirty, explicit, twisted pornography on the Net.
  I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones.
  The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene.
  Adults can tell you dirty jokes and you are allowed to laugh at them
  It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning.
  The men accepted me as a peer without question and did not tell dirty jokes or make any inappropriate suggestions around me.
  He called the safer-sex information ‘something people go buy at dirty bookstores.’
  He shared her unconventional love of rude words and dirty jokes.
  I never admitted it, but I had a HUGE crush on that naughty boy who told dirty jokes.
  The men are just like animals, because sex and dirty pornography (doing things) are the only goals in a intimate relation with a female.
  Not that I'm not in favour of a crude joke or a dirty joke but only if it's a really clever funny one.
  This disgusting, dirty pervert has started it again.
  And I'm supposed to never crack a dirty joke or flirt with a cute guy either.
  Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me.
  If people think it's obscene it's their dirty minds.
  Synonyms
  indecent, obscene, rude, vulgar, smutty, coarse, crude, filthy, bawdy, suggestive, ribald, racy, salacious, risqué, prurient, offensive, lewd, lascivious, licentious, pornographic, explicit, x-rated
5. 1.5informal attributive Used to emphasize one's disgust for someone or something.
  〈非正式〉讨厌的（用来强调对某人或某物的厌恶）
  you dirty rat!
  你这个讨厌的家伙！
  Example sentencesExamples
  Listen up, all you good-for-nothing, lying, cheating dirty stop-outs… you cross this woman at your peril.
  I mean, he is a dirty rat, he is a key enemy figure that has to be taken down, but there's other insurgent organizations involved.
  Whatever the provocation, I have to say that it is a pretty low-down dirty thing to rat on someone for surfing-at-work to their employer.
  Of all the dirty, rotten, disgusting things you've done, this has to be one of the lowest.
  This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust.
6. 1.6 (of an activity) dishonest; dishonorable.
  （行为）不诚实的；不体面的
  he had a reputation for dirty dealing
  他有做事龌龊的坏名声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Under interrogation, he's not likely to rat on his fedayeen, lead us to his hidden billions abroad or tell the truth about dirty dealings with France and Russia.
  But it doesn't obligate them to enforce the terms, which is where the intimidation and dirty dealing starts.
  Matt had done his research on Kiefer, and knew what dirty dealings he had done.
  But, on the whole, the publicity frenzy and dirty dealing that have marked previous years have been absent.
  Over the past few years, professionals in the finance business have found themselves held responsible for the dirty dealings which go on under their noses.
  AIG was hardly alone, however, in its dirty dealings.
  He had been involved in some dirty dealings with the loan sharks.
  They like things like slimey frogs, dirty activities, sticks and stones, and throwing those sticks and stones at other people and things.
  Greenpeace has a good info page about the environmental impact ship-breaking - as one would imagine, this is a dangerous, dirty activity.
  In many cases, corrupt officials collude with each other in an entangled network to fend off probes into their dirty dealings.
  You could fill a book on the scandal and dirty dealing that used to operate in Burgundy: every winemaker from the region will tell you his own tale of skulduggery.
  Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies.
  With each new leak, more evidence of the dirty dealings in the run-up to the war is exposed.
  It is hard to imagine otherwise. As far as dirty politics is considered, I fear this is just the start.
  How much did rumors of past cocaine use and dirty business dealings hurt George W. Bush?
  A group of students asked to conduct a straw poll seemed as keen to vote for Putin as they were to move abroad to work as computing engineers, and considered politics a dirty business.
  The story is a family affair against a backdrop of dirty dealings in the underground transport system.
  The Zeta Affair was the latest in a long line of bowing to whoever holds the power and secretly keeping these dirty dealings away from public scrutiny.
  However, they've rarely turned their eye on themselves to assess just what sort of dirty dealing may be going on in-house.
  Rumors of dirty dealings had always clung to him, but Nixon had always managed to keep substantive proof of corruption out of the media.
  Synonyms
  unfair, dishonest, deceitful, unscrupulous, dishonourable, unsporting, ungentlemanly, below the belt, unethical, unprincipled, immoral
7. 1.7 (of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant.
  （天气）恶劣的，有暴风雨的
  the yacht was ready for dirty weather
  游艇已经准备好了对付坏天气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I've never seen such vicious, dirty weather give up so easily.
  Where is the obligatory miasma of old industry and dirty weather, you wonder; the thunderheads stripped of silver linings?
  How else would she describe it, A spot of dirty weather?
  Yes - to compound our sickness we picked some dirty weather.
  Synonyms
  unpleasant, nasty, foul, inclement, rough, bad
8. 1.8 (of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone.
  （流行音乐）音调失真的；刺耳的
  Nirvana's dirty guitar sound
  涅槃乐队刺耳的吉他声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Really, a great disc for anyone who loves deep down, sometimes dirty music.
  Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks.
  With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys.
  Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals.
  It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub.
  Having seen them live I know how dirty and raw some of these songs can sound, and unfortunately the studio recordings lose this a little.
  On their scathing fifteen-song disc, they do everything they can to bring the danger back to loud, fast, dirty guitar rock.
  However, in all honesty European have a buzz all of their own driven by great rinky dink, cute/evil keyboard lines and dirty but super melodic guitar hooks.
  A string section soars through the song and is accompanied by some dirty break beat loops.
  This is dirty, ragga house at its best and picks up from where ‘Super Stylin’ left off.
  Even the dirty garage guitar sounds perfect writhing in a bed of electronica on ‘Accelerator.’
  Having conquered their own unique brand of dirty, beautifully awkward garage rock, Clinic was left to seek out new castles to storm.
  You can check out a couple of MP3s on their site but if you like the sound of The Verve filtered through dirty blues rock then you won't go wrong.
  This is back bedroom electronica at its best, full of big chunky breakbeats, Radiophonic Workshop bleepy things and dirty vocoder interjections.
  I don't think there has ever been a more filthy dirty gorgeously distorted sound recorded in the whole history of the recording business…
  He tends to favor cut-up dirty 70s funk guitar samples that he uses mostly to punctuate his chunky beats.
  LCD Soundsystem is first and foremost, a dance-rock party album full of dirty sounds and nasty grooves.
  Taken as a whole the album doesn't sound as underground and dirty as you mighty expect, there's one ear here to the commercial market.
  The dirty, surging guitar behind Milkshake gave it a harder rock feel than the original pop version.
  Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days.

verbˈdərdiˈdərdē

[with object]

Make dirty.
she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels
她不喜欢他弄脏她漂亮干净的毛巾。
Example sentencesExamples
- Herbs she planted too, though their names are lost to her daughters who have never liked to dirty their hands.
- Further the render in the area close to the ground will be dirtied by splashes from the ground when it rains.
- Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings.
- Just one month ago, Caterina Bayes was so afraid of dirtying her spotless Colchester home, she refused to let relatives and friends across the doorstep.
- We dirty our streets, we break traffic rules, we torment women, we seek dowry, and we discard our old; we wait for our share of impending trouble.
- When baby dirties herself, clean her up right away.
- She accuses them of spoiling the sofa and dirtying the linen.
- He told his secretary to run outside and dirty his shoes in the grass and mud.
- It is a little walk down a muddy path but the waterfall is a sight worth dirtying your shoes for.
- His short blond hair was dirtied by the soil and I could tell by the stench of the air that he was bleeding.
- Pillars turning into arches kept the roof from falling on those who passed through the halls and the floor that once upon a time was solid now a muddy slush dirties everything it touches.
- The sins range from dirtying the floor with urine (usually by puppies or because they have not been taken outside because the owner is too busy or tired), barking, coming when called or greeting the owner with enthusiasm.
- I dirty every pot and use the sink like a dumping ground.
- Mud dragged out by vehicles and heavy machinery entering and exiting the site have also turned the road into a mudbath, dirtying cars and school busses using the route.
- Wilbur came crawling out from his hiding spot with soot dirtying his face.
- The banks were muddy and dirtied the boy's tunic even more as he knelt to wash the sweat from his face.
- Discarded cigarette butts strewn outside Mayo's pubs are dirtying our towns, according to a Mayo litter warden.
Synonyms
soil, stain, muddy, blacken, mess up, spoil, tarnish, taint, make dirty

Phrases

the dirty end of the stick

informal The difficult or unpleasant part of a task or situation.
〈非正式，主英〉（任务或形势）困难（或讨厌）的部分
Example sentencesExamples
- It is time that non-white nations, which usually take the dirty end of the stick in such matters, impressed on the ICC to frame tougher rules than merely cutting match fees and points.
- I personally hope so because in spite of pouring millions of pounds into this corrupt organisation which has not been elected by the British people, we are still getting the dirty end of the stick.
- And when he gets the dirty end of the stick from an umpire of the elite panel, he has good reason to feel upset.
- O'Donoghue's suggestion that there is something mythical about the price of living in this country is not just insulting to the millions of people who have been left with the dirty end of the stick - it is also breathtaking in its arrogance.
- From where I stand, I think our entire region would end up with the dirty end of the stick, so I think we all need to join hands and chant ‘Give Peace a Chance!’
- It now seems most likely that Global Trust Bank shareholders will be left holding the dirty end of the stick.

get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands)

1Do manual, menial, or other hard work.
干体力活，干粗活，干重活
unlike most chairmen, he gets his hands dirty working alongside the other managers
和大多数董事长不同，他不辞辛劳，和其他经理们一起干活。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Midwest is full of doughy white guys that love to get their hands dirty and work hard, so that shouldn't be a problem.
- They are asked by their parents to choose a way of life that involves getting their hands dirty for very little or no money.
- After a life working in data communications for British Telecom, British Gas and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he's now swapped the ordinary office life for a job that really involves getting his hands dirty.
- The Lowry managers seemed happy to get their hands dirty, though some found it hard going.
- I never forgot where I'd come from, and I was never too good that I couldn't get my hands dirty and do menial jobs.
- People think that if you go straight into football you don't appreciate finishing early, that you don't have to get your hands dirty or work hard.
- Members of the Lions Club got their hands dirty on Thursday night, when they donned gloves and picked up shovels for a clean up of Samson's Lane and Rossglass Beach.
- And it's getting harder to convince high school students to get their hands dirty when they've come through a system which measures success in terms of a university degree and the size of the pay packet.
- And those who do have jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber are more likely than anywhere else to be getting their hands dirty in manual or semi-skilled jobs.
- Don't tell me you once got your hands dirty between VCA and graphic design.
1. 1.1informal Become involved in dishonest or dishonorable activity.
  〈非正式〉卷入不诚实（或不名誉）的行动
  they can make a lot of money, but fat cats don't get their hands dirty
  他们可以赚很多钱，但这些大亨们不想被拉下水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We weren't even sure whether we wanted to get involved, get our hands dirty with politics.
  Elections are a dirty business, and Brown makes no apology for getting his hands dirty.
  Have there been trends where you feel like you're getting your hands dirty by even involving yourself?

play dirty

informal Act in a dishonest or unfair way.
〈非正式〉做事不诚实（或不公平）
Example sentencesExamples
- Gene Hackman stars as the infamous Rankin Fitch, a jury selection specialist not afraid to play dirty if it gets the results his clients pay him big bucks for.
- The bad news is that Republicans are doing what they always do: playing dirty.
- You can, without even resorting to playing dirty.
- Of course, even when somebody plays dirty, losing is losing and it's not long before nobody cares about the details.
- Tesco plays dirty, it seems, when it comes to moving in on a new location.
- During the next election campaign don't be surprised when Labour plays dirty.
- ‘I play the game hard but there is no way I would devalue the honour of playing for my country by playing dirty,’ Harrison said.
- He's been giving out specifics, but your folks have been playing dirty.
- They could play big; they could not play at all; and they may turn up to find Republicans playing dirty.
- ‘Now, despite all the hopes for military reform, things have returned to square one with the TNI playing dirty, vulgar games and ignoring the political aspirations of the civilian population,’ he said.

talk dirty

informal Speak about sex in a coarse or obscene way.
〈非正式〉讲下流话
Example sentencesExamples
- The beauty of talking dirty in the sack is that you communicate it's not only your body which is aroused but your senses and mind as well.
- The Wau Wau Sisters dress up as schoolgirls and sing mildly blasphemous songs, turn tricks (circus tricks), pile on the lesbian lipstick chic, and talk dirty and giggle at the same time.
- The film also benefits from some sparkling performances, the pick of which comes from Winslet's Tula as the sassy, sexy and, quite frankly, incendiary femme fatale with a penchant for talking dirty.
- She says that it is a daily occurrence to be invited to engage in cybersex, or to talk dirty, but she rejects these offers without hesitation.
- Women who effortlessly talk dirty are exciting and hold the promise of amazing sex.
- She talks dirty and suggestively, and most of the men just ignore her - but she is particularly forceful if a man doesn't respond to her.
- In the USA where lawsuits are the nation's favorite hobby, talking dirty to a woman is called Sexual Harassment and is backed up by stiff penalties.
- They watch the cable-access queen talk dirty, fondle herself and advise callers on their sex lives.
- My girlfriend always asks me to talk dirty to her during our lovemaking.
- Then, of course, there's cybersex, which mostly consists of talking dirty to each other.

单词	dirty
释义	Definition of dirty in English: dirty adjectivedirtier, dirtiest ˈdəːtiˈdərdi 1Covered or marked with an unclean substance. 肮脏的，不干净的 a tray of dirty cups and saucers 一盘子的脏杯子和碟子。 her boots were dirty 她的靴子很脏。 Example sentencesExamples The toilet bowls were unclean and the floor was wet and dirty, and covered in rubbish. I walked into the washroom to take a shower, I felt so dirty. Don't let paper get too dirty before cleaning it. It was wrinkled almost beyond repair and, because he hadn't taken off his shoes, covered in dirty footprints. Mr. Brown asked as he noticed that her clothes were already very dirty. You do not want baby to suffer from skin allergies from dirty bed linen. I got my clothes very dirty and wet because it started raining at the job site. "We handle extremely dirty linens, " Flores said. Do you run the dishwasher with less than a full load of dirty dishes? Most of the cells were dirty and the walls covered with graffiti. I just had a bath to relax and because I was filthy dirty… covered in paint and wallpaper paste, and feet black with newsprint off the newspapers I'd put on the floor. They laugh at our strange accent, and condemn our town for being dirty. Hot water is only necessary for really dirty laundry or to sterilize clothing from bacteria and viruses. Throw more dirty laundry, shop towels, or other towels on the water. Her dress was dirty, ripped and covered in blood. Steph looked up, hands dirty with dry mud and knees grass stained. Meanwhile the bus station toilets are dirty and the baby changing facilities broken. Hands are dirty and things to be kept away from your face. I usually drive a different vehicle every day, so they normally don't get too dirty. In his experience, nature tended to make one dirty, smelly and tired. Synonyms soiled, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, spotted, smudged, cloudy, muddy, dusty, sooty unclean, sullied, impure, tarnished, polluted, contaminated, defiled, foul, unhygienic, insanitary, unsanitary informal cruddy, yucky, icky British informal manky, gungy, grotty Northern Irish informal bogging literary befouled, besmirched, begrimed rare feculent 1.1 Causing a person or place to become unclean. 使脏的 farming is a hard, dirty job 耕作是又苦又脏的活。 Example sentencesExamples A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too. It is to be hoped that some way can be found to reassure the stall handlers that their jobs are safe and that they are given the appropriate rewards for a dirty and dangerous job. She complained about having done dirty jobs like shredding, and I bid her good day and thought of my friends who might be happy to have some of these slides. The changes were not all bad, Brian concedes - mining was a dangerous and dirty job. The feeling of compassion was actually based on the idea we were leading much happier and superior lives than they were able to and that we looked down upon the dirty and hard jobs they performed. A large Haitian community, meanwhile, does the dirty jobs that Bahamians prefer to avoid. ‘My father was a steel worker all his life, in a filthy, dirty, dangerous job,’ he says. They were dirty jobs, and the money wasn't good, but I thought it was great, and the key thing was having a good time. Fridays were taken up with jobbing printing and the dirty job of recycling the lead used to make up the type. When you start out, you have to do the dirty jobs, even if it's washing the bikes or keeping watch. Fewer dirty utensils in the sink mean smoother hands for the housewives who are forced to do this dirty job. It may make the international competition tougher but if Britain can win the fight for skilled jobs and leave the dirty manufacturing jobs to others, it will be a far nicer and cleaner place to live. You've got to love to fly to do a job that dangerous and dirty. If you had a dirty job and your hands were filthy and the call came to roll eggs, there was little opportunity to wash your hands. Politics is often said to be a dirty job, and the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Alan Beith got his hands right into the muck to help launch the party's York environment campaign. 1.2 (of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout. （核武器）产生大量放射性沉降物的 Example sentencesExamples He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads. 2(of an activity) dishonest; dishonourable. （行为）不诚实的；不体面的 he had a reputation for dirty dealing 他有做事龌龊的坏名声。 Example sentencesExamples He had been involved in some dirty dealings with the loan sharks. In many cases, corrupt officials collude with each other in an entangled network to fend off probes into their dirty dealings. The story is a family affair against a backdrop of dirty dealings in the underground transport system. With each new leak, more evidence of the dirty dealings in the run-up to the war is exposed. Under interrogation, he's not likely to rat on his fedayeen, lead us to his hidden billions abroad or tell the truth about dirty dealings with France and Russia. However, they've rarely turned their eye on themselves to assess just what sort of dirty dealing may be going on in-house. Greenpeace has a good info page about the environmental impact ship-breaking - as one would imagine, this is a dangerous, dirty activity. It is hard to imagine otherwise. As far as dirty politics is considered, I fear this is just the start. You could fill a book on the scandal and dirty dealing that used to operate in Burgundy: every winemaker from the region will tell you his own tale of skulduggery. The Zeta Affair was the latest in a long line of bowing to whoever holds the power and secretly keeping these dirty dealings away from public scrutiny. But, on the whole, the publicity frenzy and dirty dealing that have marked previous years have been absent. AIG was hardly alone, however, in its dirty dealings. But it doesn't obligate them to enforce the terms, which is where the intimidation and dirty dealing starts. A group of students asked to conduct a straw poll seemed as keen to vote for Putin as they were to move abroad to work as computing engineers, and considered politics a dirty business. Over the past few years, professionals in the finance business have found themselves held responsible for the dirty dealings which go on under their noses. Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies. They like things like slimey frogs, dirty activities, sticks and stones, and throwing those sticks and stones at other people and things. Rumors of dirty dealings had always clung to him, but Nixon had always managed to keep substantive proof of corruption out of the media. Matt had done his research on Kiefer, and knew what dirty dealings he had done. How much did rumors of past cocaine use and dirty business dealings hurt George W. Bush? Synonyms unfair, dishonest, deceitful, unscrupulous, dishonourable, unsporting, ungentlemanly, below the belt, unethical, unprincipled, immoral crooked, illegal, fraudulent rotten, corrupt, double-dealing, Janus-faced, treacherous, underhand, sly, crafty, cunning, wily, devious, Machiavellian, sneaky, guileful, conniving, designing, calculating nasty, unpleasant, mean, base, low, vile, contemptible, despicable, cowardly, shameful, ignominious, sordid, beggarly, squalid informal low-down British informal out of order, not cricket 2.1US informal Using illegal drugs. 〈美，非正式〉使用非法药品的；使用违禁药物的 2.2informal attributive Used to emphasize one's disgust for someone or something. 〈非正式〉讨厌的（用来强调对某人或某物的厌恶） you dirty rat! 你这个讨厌的家伙！ Example sentencesExamples Whatever the provocation, I have to say that it is a pretty low-down dirty thing to rat on someone for surfing-at-work to their employer. Listen up, all you good-for-nothing, lying, cheating dirty stop-outs… you cross this woman at your peril. I mean, he is a dirty rat, he is a key enemy figure that has to be taken down, but there's other insurgent organizations involved. Of all the dirty, rotten, disgusting things you've done, this has to be one of the lowest. This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust. 3Concerned with sex in a lewd or obscene way. 下流的；色情的 he told a stream of dirty jokes 他讲了一连串黄色笑话。 Example sentencesExamples Thanks be to the power of human libido, there is still a massive pile of really dirty, explicit, twisted pornography on the Net. This disgusting, dirty pervert has started it again. As offenses go, dirty jokes just don't register with me any more. He shared her unconventional love of rude words and dirty jokes. Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me. And I'm supposed to never crack a dirty joke or flirt with a cute guy either. I never admitted it, but I had a HUGE crush on that naughty boy who told dirty jokes. Adults can tell you dirty jokes and you are allowed to laugh at them In fact, 63.5 per cent of her participants admitted they've sent a dirty joke or sexually explicit email. If people think it's obscene it's their dirty minds. It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning. The men accepted me as a peer without question and did not tell dirty jokes or make any inappropriate suggestions around me. He tells dirty joke after dirty joke and makes a lot of sexual references in every conversation. I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones. The men are just like animals, because sex and dirty pornography (doing things) are the only goals in a intimate relation with a female. I mean, they tell all sorts of dirty jokes and discuss lewd things in language I hate to admit I get to listen to all around me, but let someone act like a human being and everyone freaks. Not that I'm not in favour of a crude joke or a dirty joke but only if it's a really clever funny one. He called the safer-sex information ‘something people go buy at dirty bookstores.’ The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene. Synonyms indecent, obscene, rude, vulgar, smutty, coarse, crude, filthy, bawdy, suggestive, ribald, racy, salacious, risqué, prurient, offensive, lewd, lascivious, licentious, pornographic, explicit, X-rated North American off colour informal naughty, blue euphemistic adult 4(of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant. （天气）恶劣的，有暴风雨的 Example sentencesExamples I've never seen such vicious, dirty weather give up so easily. Yes - to compound our sickness we picked some dirty weather. Where is the obligatory miasma of old industry and dirty weather, you wonder; the thunderheads stripped of silver linings? How else would she describe it, A spot of dirty weather? Synonyms unpleasant, nasty, foul, inclement, rough, bad stormy, squally, gusty, windy, blowy, rainy misty, gloomy, murky, overcast, louring 5(of a colour) not bright or pure; dull. （颜色）不鲜明的，不亮的，不纯净的 the sea was a waste of dirty grey 大海是灰蒙蒙的一片汪洋。 Example sentencesExamples The image on the photograph bubbles and glows, then fades, until nothing is left but a dull, dirty white space. His hair is kind of a dirty blonde colour, though more towards the brown, again. The buildings are large, rectangular, and have a dirty grey colour. The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey. It's in black, too (I always hated that dirty grey look, if I'm honest). His fluttering eyes look at me, small slits of sky-blue against the black of his lashes and dirty tan of his skin. The body was like snow, which had gotten that dirty grey colour. The carpet is a dirty beige - my shoes (too small… children's shoes) are muddy, and the laces trail behind my feet. Sid's door was a dirty brown colour and John couldn't help but wonder if it had been painted that way or if years of neglect had produced this effect. Colors range from a dirty tan to yellow and occasionally reddish-orange. The blacks are solid, though the whites can appear a bit dirty by comparison. Looks fairly old with a brown roof and dirty white for the colour of the house's walls. The Ungaro dress looks like taffeta and has a peach-colored shimmer; the dummy is painted in an exact shade of dirty beige. This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour. I drop my head, allowing my eyes to wash over the dirty colour of the floorboards. The evil witch loves dirty green colour and makes sure the whole coffee house is decorated in that colour. The walls were a pale yellow; the carpet was a dirty cream colour. He was a good head taller with bright blue eyes and dirty blonde spiked hair. The floor was old and dirty beige carpet, and the walls were painted off white but where chipped and peeling. He turned and there was Beth, in the dirty cream coloured Ute. Synonyms dull, cloudy, muddy, dingy, dark, not clear, not pure, not bright 5.1 (of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone. （流行音乐）音调失真的；刺耳的 Nirvana's dirty guitar sound 涅槃乐队刺耳的吉他声。 Example sentencesExamples Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals. He tends to favor cut-up dirty 70s funk guitar samples that he uses mostly to punctuate his chunky beats. Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days. I don't think there has ever been a more filthy dirty gorgeously distorted sound recorded in the whole history of the recording business… On their scathing fifteen-song disc, they do everything they can to bring the danger back to loud, fast, dirty guitar rock. A string section soars through the song and is accompanied by some dirty break beat loops. This is back bedroom electronica at its best, full of big chunky breakbeats, Radiophonic Workshop bleepy things and dirty vocoder interjections. LCD Soundsystem is first and foremost, a dance-rock party album full of dirty sounds and nasty grooves. Taken as a whole the album doesn't sound as underground and dirty as you mighty expect, there's one ear here to the commercial market. The dirty, surging guitar behind Milkshake gave it a harder rock feel than the original pop version. Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks. Having conquered their own unique brand of dirty, beautifully awkward garage rock, Clinic was left to seek out new castles to storm. With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys. You can check out a couple of MP3s on their site but if you like the sound of The Verve filtered through dirty blues rock then you won't go wrong. However, in all honesty European have a buzz all of their own driven by great rinky dink, cute/evil keyboard lines and dirty but super melodic guitar hooks. Really, a great disc for anyone who loves deep down, sometimes dirty music. Having seen them live I know how dirty and raw some of these songs can sound, and unfortunately the studio recordings lose this a little. This is dirty, ragga house at its best and picks up from where ‘Super Stylin’ left off. It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub. Even the dirty garage guitar sounds perfect writhing in a bed of electronica on ‘Accelerator.’ adverbˈdəːti British informal as submodifier Used for emphasis. 〈英，非正式〉很，非常（用来表示强调） a dirty great slab of stone 一块非常大的石板。 Example sentencesExamples Celtic, at least, know they have a dirty great problem to solve as they head into next week's Old Firm derby. If you deface and wreck your countryside with dirty great turbines it is obvious that you will turn visitors away. They are the liars-in-chief, the gatekeepers of vaults of dirty big secrets which wait for the deployment of journalistic diligence and courage to be uncovered. Because there's no dirty great ball and chain to drag around, The Monsters get to punch home the point time after time without needing to worry if their hair looks good, or how they fit in. The zones earmarked for growth are poised like three swords of Damocles around London's periphery, each one centred on its own source of sustenance: a dirty great road. verbdirtying, dirties, dirtiedˈdəːtiˈdərdi [with object] Make dirty. she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels 她不喜欢他弄脏她漂亮干净的毛巾。 Example sentencesExamples We dirty our streets, we break traffic rules, we torment women, we seek dowry, and we discard our old; we wait for our share of impending trouble. She accuses them of spoiling the sofa and dirtying the linen. Mud dragged out by vehicles and heavy machinery entering and exiting the site have also turned the road into a mudbath, dirtying cars and school busses using the route. He told his secretary to run outside and dirty his shoes in the grass and mud. Pillars turning into arches kept the roof from falling on those who passed through the halls and the floor that once upon a time was solid now a muddy slush dirties everything it touches. It is a little walk down a muddy path but the waterfall is a sight worth dirtying your shoes for. I dirty every pot and use the sink like a dumping ground. Herbs she planted too, though their names are lost to her daughters who have never liked to dirty their hands. Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings. Just one month ago, Caterina Bayes was so afraid of dirtying her spotless Colchester home, she refused to let relatives and friends across the doorstep. The banks were muddy and dirtied the boy's tunic even more as he knelt to wash the sweat from his face. When baby dirties herself, clean her up right away. Further the render in the area close to the ground will be dirtied by splashes from the ground when it rains. Discarded cigarette butts strewn outside Mayo's pubs are dirtying our towns, according to a Mayo litter warden. The sins range from dirtying the floor with urine (usually by puppies or because they have not been taken outside because the owner is too busy or tired), barking, coming when called or greeting the owner with enthusiasm. Wilbur came crawling out from his hiding spot with soot dirtying his face. His short blond hair was dirtied by the soil and I could tell by the stench of the air that he was bleeding. Synonyms soil, stain, muddy, blacken, mess up, spoil, tarnish, taint, make dirty mark, spatter, bespatter, smudge, smear, daub, spot, splash, splatter sully, pollute, foul, defile literary befoul, besmirch, begrime Phrases the dirty end of the stick informal The difficult or unpleasant part of a task or situation. 〈非正式，主英〉（任务或形势）困难（或讨厌）的部分 Example sentencesExamples From where I stand, I think our entire region would end up with the dirty end of the stick, so I think we all need to join hands and chant ‘Give Peace a Chance!’ It is time that non-white nations, which usually take the dirty end of the stick in such matters, impressed on the ICC to frame tougher rules than merely cutting match fees and points. I personally hope so because in spite of pouring millions of pounds into this corrupt organisation which has not been elected by the British people, we are still getting the dirty end of the stick. O'Donoghue's suggestion that there is something mythical about the price of living in this country is not just insulting to the millions of people who have been left with the dirty end of the stick - it is also breathtaking in its arrogance. It now seems most likely that Global Trust Bank shareholders will be left holding the dirty end of the stick. And when he gets the dirty end of the stick from an umpire of the elite panel, he has good reason to feel upset. do the dirty on someone informal Cheat or betray someone. 〈英，非正式〉欺骗；背叛（某人） Example sentencesExamples In movies we get to vicariously fight back against the things or people that do the dirty on us. Forget ‘for richer, for poorer’ and just remember the profit warnings seen in recent years - companies show little remorse when they do the dirty on you. Strand, which he promised dutifully not to visit, not after his last visit there ended in those distressing Bankrupts Anonymous meetings, did the dirty on him. Also profiled is California's arch-conservative talk radio host Melanie Morgan, and Soweto's Cheaters, which hires private detectives to find out if its listeners' partners are doing the dirty on them. Now he regrets doing the dirty on Duff, however, and is desperate to get back with her. ‘Then there's drug-loving drummer Lucy and mood guitarist Joe whose girlfriend Kate has no idea he's doing the dirty on her ‘Well,’ he began, sliding his arm around her waist, ‘Mike-that's my brother by the way - found out that Sophie - his ex-fiancée - was doing the dirty on him with the best man. Synonyms betray, cheat, double-cross, defraud, trick, hoodwink, mislead, deceive, swindle, break one's promise to, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break faith with, play false, fail, let down get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands) 1Do manual, menial, or other hard work. 干体力活，干粗活，干重活 Example sentencesExamples The Midwest is full of doughy white guys that love to get their hands dirty and work hard, so that shouldn't be a problem. People think that if you go straight into football you don't appreciate finishing early, that you don't have to get your hands dirty or work hard. After a life working in data communications for British Telecom, British Gas and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he's now swapped the ordinary office life for a job that really involves getting his hands dirty. And those who do have jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber are more likely than anywhere else to be getting their hands dirty in manual or semi-skilled jobs. They are asked by their parents to choose a way of life that involves getting their hands dirty for very little or no money. I never forgot where I'd come from, and I was never too good that I couldn't get my hands dirty and do menial jobs. The Lowry managers seemed happy to get their hands dirty, though some found it hard going. Members of the Lions Club got their hands dirty on Thursday night, when they donned gloves and picked up shovels for a clean up of Samson's Lane and Rossglass Beach. Don't tell me you once got your hands dirty between VCA and graphic design. And it's getting harder to convince high school students to get their hands dirty when they've come through a system which measures success in terms of a university degree and the size of the pay packet. 1.1informal Become involved in dishonest or dishonourable activity. 〈非正式〉卷入不诚实（或不名誉）的行动 Example sentencesExamples Have there been trends where you feel like you're getting your hands dirty by even involving yourself? Elections are a dirty business, and Brown makes no apology for getting his hands dirty. We weren't even sure whether we wanted to get involved, get our hands dirty with politics. play dirty informal Act in a dishonest or unfair way. 〈非正式〉做事不诚实（或不公平） Example sentencesExamples Of course, even when somebody plays dirty, losing is losing and it's not long before nobody cares about the details. ‘Now, despite all the hopes for military reform, things have returned to square one with the TNI playing dirty, vulgar games and ignoring the political aspirations of the civilian population,’ he said. They could play big; they could not play at all; and they may turn up to find Republicans playing dirty. The bad news is that Republicans are doing what they always do: playing dirty. During the next election campaign don't be surprised when Labour plays dirty. You can, without even resorting to playing dirty. Gene Hackman stars as the infamous Rankin Fitch, a jury selection specialist not afraid to play dirty if it gets the results his clients pay him big bucks for. He's been giving out specifics, but your folks have been playing dirty. ‘I play the game hard but there is no way I would devalue the honour of playing for my country by playing dirty,’ Harrison said. Tesco plays dirty, it seems, when it comes to moving in on a new location. talk dirty informal Talk about sex in a coarse or salacious way. Example sentencesExamples The film also benefits from some sparkling performances, the pick of which comes from Winslet's Tula as the sassy, sexy and, quite frankly, incendiary femme fatale with a penchant for talking dirty. Then, of course, there's cybersex, which mostly consists of talking dirty to each other. They watch the cable-access queen talk dirty, fondle herself and advise callers on their sex lives. She talks dirty and suggestively, and most of the men just ignore her - but she is particularly forceful if a man doesn't respond to her. She says that it is a daily occurrence to be invited to engage in cybersex, or to talk dirty, but she rejects these offers without hesitation. In the USA where lawsuits are the nation's favorite hobby, talking dirty to a woman is called Sexual Harassment and is backed up by stiff penalties. The beauty of talking dirty in the sack is that you communicate it's not only your body which is aroused but your senses and mind as well. Women who effortlessly talk dirty are exciting and hold the promise of amazing sex. My girlfriend always asks me to talk dirty to her during our lovemaking. The Wau Wau Sisters dress up as schoolgirls and sing mildly blasphemous songs, turn tricks (circus tricks), pile on the lesbian lipstick chic, and talk dirty and giggle at the same time. Derivatives dirtily adverb ˈdəːtɪliˈdərdəli And there it was, right between the house and a barn sitting dirtily and conspicuously. Example sentencesExamples He looked at me dirtily, but ripped the box open. Terry dirtily shot me an angry look that said ‘Why couldn't you have just listened to me?’ But as anyone who has had to deal with them knows, the Liberals' squeaky clean image is quite wrong: they fight viciously and dirtily. The men were still miners, digging dirtily with hard enthusiasm. ‘I like it when you call me daddy,’ he joked dirtily. And yes, ok, that could be taken really dirtily… Sure, Cavendish can shake and shimmy with the best of them and growl as dirtily as West as she delivers lines like ‘I used to be Snow White - but I drifted.’ They rolled on the muddy ground for quite some time before Bridget ran inside the house with Mark trailing dirtily behind her. There must be something wrong with me, darkly, dirtily wrong. dirtiness noun ˈdəːtɪnəs The failure of dirt availability or habitat selection to explain the timing of male dirtiness suggests that males delay dirtying their plumage to obtain some benefit from conspicuous plumage. Example sentencesExamples I thought that untidiness and dirtiness were the characteristics of cities in some underdeveloped country of the past, like Calcutta, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro or elsewhere, but not here in Australia. It feels like no matter how much I wash myself over and over again, the dirtiness will never go away. Nevertheless he wrote down our request for a new blanket and another pillow on a post-it note, and told us he'd have housekeeping look into the issue of dirtiness, and we went on our way. I didn't understand what had to be clean-my feet felt fine and I couldn't smell anything to suggest dirtiness, but I suppose the Lady is very picky and wanted the stalls to be super clean. Despite the dirtiness, we did do our fair share of sightseeing. It's cool and clean, with none of the jaded heat and dirtiness that will fill it once the streets become choked with traffic. It is the final product of a world gone mad trying to create Utopia; a place free of human dirtiness, a kind of ethnic cleansing that occurs when you allow people to completely remove humanity for absolute materialism. She said that foreigners cannot get used to the dirtiness and lack of organisation on streets but ‘the rest is very enjoyable’. It then becomes a matter of determining the threshold of dirtiness that triggers a vacuuming. Rhymes Alberti, Bertie, flirty, shirty, thirty adj.1 phr. Definition of dirty in US English: dirty adjectiveˈdərdiˈdərdē 1Covered or marked with an unclean substance. 肮脏的，不干净的 a tray of dirty cups and saucers 一盘子的脏杯子和碟子。 her boots were dirty 她的靴子很脏。 Example sentencesExamples I usually drive a different vehicle every day, so they normally don't get too dirty. The toilet bowls were unclean and the floor was wet and dirty, and covered in rubbish. Meanwhile the bus station toilets are dirty and the baby changing facilities broken. Steph looked up, hands dirty with dry mud and knees grass stained. "We handle extremely dirty linens, " Flores said. Hands are dirty and things to be kept away from your face. Don't let paper get too dirty before cleaning it. I just had a bath to relax and because I was filthy dirty… covered in paint and wallpaper paste, and feet black with newsprint off the newspapers I'd put on the floor. I walked into the washroom to take a shower, I felt so dirty. Most of the cells were dirty and the walls covered with graffiti. It was wrinkled almost beyond repair and, because he hadn't taken off his shoes, covered in dirty footprints. Hot water is only necessary for really dirty laundry or to sterilize clothing from bacteria and viruses. Do you run the dishwasher with less than a full load of dirty dishes? Her dress was dirty, ripped and covered in blood. Throw more dirty laundry, shop towels, or other towels on the water. I got my clothes very dirty and wet because it started raining at the job site. Mr. Brown asked as he noticed that her clothes were already very dirty. They laugh at our strange accent, and condemn our town for being dirty. You do not want baby to suffer from skin allergies from dirty bed linen. In his experience, nature tended to make one dirty, smelly and tired. Synonyms soiled, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, spotted, smudged, cloudy, muddy, dusty, sooty 1.1 Causing a person or environment to become unclean. 使脏的 farming is a hard, dirty job 耕作是又苦又脏的活。 Example sentencesExamples They were dirty jobs, and the money wasn't good, but I thought it was great, and the key thing was having a good time. The feeling of compassion was actually based on the idea we were leading much happier and superior lives than they were able to and that we looked down upon the dirty and hard jobs they performed. ‘My father was a steel worker all his life, in a filthy, dirty, dangerous job,’ he says. When you start out, you have to do the dirty jobs, even if it's washing the bikes or keeping watch. She complained about having done dirty jobs like shredding, and I bid her good day and thought of my friends who might be happy to have some of these slides. You've got to love to fly to do a job that dangerous and dirty. If you had a dirty job and your hands were filthy and the call came to roll eggs, there was little opportunity to wash your hands. It is to be hoped that some way can be found to reassure the stall handlers that their jobs are safe and that they are given the appropriate rewards for a dirty and dangerous job. The changes were not all bad, Brian concedes - mining was a dangerous and dirty job. It may make the international competition tougher but if Britain can win the fight for skilled jobs and leave the dirty manufacturing jobs to others, it will be a far nicer and cleaner place to live. Fridays were taken up with jobbing printing and the dirty job of recycling the lead used to make up the type. A large Haitian community, meanwhile, does the dirty jobs that Bahamians prefer to avoid. Politics is often said to be a dirty job, and the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Alan Beith got his hands right into the muck to help launch the party's York environment campaign. A hellish day - it pours down with rain non-stop, turning the paddocks into mud and making our jobs difficult and dirty, it can be difficult for the animals too. Fewer dirty utensils in the sink mean smoother hands for the housewives who are forced to do this dirty job. 1.2 (of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout. （核武器）产生大量放射性沉降物的 Example sentencesExamples He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads. 1.3 (of a color) not bright, clear, or pure. （颜色）不鲜明的，不亮的，不纯净的 the sea was a waste of dirty gray 大海是灰蒙蒙的一片汪洋。 Example sentencesExamples The body was like snow, which had gotten that dirty grey colour. I drop my head, allowing my eyes to wash over the dirty colour of the floorboards. It's in black, too (I always hated that dirty grey look, if I'm honest). His fluttering eyes look at me, small slits of sky-blue against the black of his lashes and dirty tan of his skin. The blacks are solid, though the whites can appear a bit dirty by comparison. Colors range from a dirty tan to yellow and occasionally reddish-orange. The buildings are large, rectangular, and have a dirty grey colour. He turned and there was Beth, in the dirty cream coloured Ute. The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey. His hair is kind of a dirty blonde colour, though more towards the brown, again. The Ungaro dress looks like taffeta and has a peach-colored shimmer; the dummy is painted in an exact shade of dirty beige. The floor was old and dirty beige carpet, and the walls were painted off white but where chipped and peeling. He was a good head taller with bright blue eyes and dirty blonde spiked hair. This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour. Looks fairly old with a brown roof and dirty white for the colour of the house's walls. The image on the photograph bubbles and glows, then fades, until nothing is left but a dull, dirty white space. The evil witch loves dirty green colour and makes sure the whole coffee house is decorated in that colour. The carpet is a dirty beige - my shoes (too small… children's shoes) are muddy, and the laces trail behind my feet. The walls were a pale yellow; the carpet was a dirty cream colour. Sid's door was a dirty brown colour and John couldn't help but wonder if it had been painted that way or if years of neglect had produced this effect. Synonyms dull, cloudy, muddy, dingy, dark, not clear, not pure, not bright 1.4 Concerned with sex in an unpleasant or obscene way. 下流的；色情的 he told a stream of dirty jokes 他讲了一连串黄色笑话。 Example sentencesExamples I mean, they tell all sorts of dirty jokes and discuss lewd things in language I hate to admit I get to listen to all around me, but let someone act like a human being and everyone freaks. As offenses go, dirty jokes just don't register with me any more. In fact, 63.5 per cent of her participants admitted they've sent a dirty joke or sexually explicit email. He tells dirty joke after dirty joke and makes a lot of sexual references in every conversation. Thanks be to the power of human libido, there is still a massive pile of really dirty, explicit, twisted pornography on the Net. I don't mean relevant questions, just dirty and obscene ones. The joke about your boyfriend was downright dirty and obscene. Adults can tell you dirty jokes and you are allowed to laugh at them It should be wicked, wanton and lewd, dirty to the point where it is embarrassing to look at one another in the morning. The men accepted me as a peer without question and did not tell dirty jokes or make any inappropriate suggestions around me. He called the safer-sex information ‘something people go buy at dirty bookstores.’ He shared her unconventional love of rude words and dirty jokes. I never admitted it, but I had a HUGE crush on that naughty boy who told dirty jokes. The men are just like animals, because sex and dirty pornography (doing things) are the only goals in a intimate relation with a female. Not that I'm not in favour of a crude joke or a dirty joke but only if it's a really clever funny one. This disgusting, dirty pervert has started it again. And I'm supposed to never crack a dirty joke or flirt with a cute guy either. Well, that really ruined the moment for her especially, and made me feel really horrible for a long time, and caused dirty talk to become a kind of taboo for me. If people think it's obscene it's their dirty minds. Synonyms indecent, obscene, rude, vulgar, smutty, coarse, crude, filthy, bawdy, suggestive, ribald, racy, salacious, risqué, prurient, offensive, lewd, lascivious, licentious, pornographic, explicit, x-rated 1.5informal attributive Used to emphasize one's disgust for someone or something. 〈非正式〉讨厌的（用来强调对某人或某物的厌恶） you dirty rat! 你这个讨厌的家伙！ Example sentencesExamples Listen up, all you good-for-nothing, lying, cheating dirty stop-outs… you cross this woman at your peril. I mean, he is a dirty rat, he is a key enemy figure that has to be taken down, but there's other insurgent organizations involved. Whatever the provocation, I have to say that it is a pretty low-down dirty thing to rat on someone for surfing-at-work to their employer. Of all the dirty, rotten, disgusting things you've done, this has to be one of the lowest. This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust. 1.6 (of an activity) dishonest; dishonorable. （行为）不诚实的；不体面的 he had a reputation for dirty dealing 他有做事龌龊的坏名声。 Example sentencesExamples Under interrogation, he's not likely to rat on his fedayeen, lead us to his hidden billions abroad or tell the truth about dirty dealings with France and Russia. But it doesn't obligate them to enforce the terms, which is where the intimidation and dirty dealing starts. Matt had done his research on Kiefer, and knew what dirty dealings he had done. But, on the whole, the publicity frenzy and dirty dealing that have marked previous years have been absent. Over the past few years, professionals in the finance business have found themselves held responsible for the dirty dealings which go on under their noses. AIG was hardly alone, however, in its dirty dealings. He had been involved in some dirty dealings with the loan sharks. They like things like slimey frogs, dirty activities, sticks and stones, and throwing those sticks and stones at other people and things. Greenpeace has a good info page about the environmental impact ship-breaking - as one would imagine, this is a dangerous, dirty activity. In many cases, corrupt officials collude with each other in an entangled network to fend off probes into their dirty dealings. You could fill a book on the scandal and dirty dealing that used to operate in Burgundy: every winemaker from the region will tell you his own tale of skulduggery. Expected to be sidelined a minimum of six weeks by the setback, Lee sounded off angrily against what he considered dirty tactics by his Yankee enemies. With each new leak, more evidence of the dirty dealings in the run-up to the war is exposed. It is hard to imagine otherwise. As far as dirty politics is considered, I fear this is just the start. How much did rumors of past cocaine use and dirty business dealings hurt George W. Bush? A group of students asked to conduct a straw poll seemed as keen to vote for Putin as they were to move abroad to work as computing engineers, and considered politics a dirty business. The story is a family affair against a backdrop of dirty dealings in the underground transport system. The Zeta Affair was the latest in a long line of bowing to whoever holds the power and secretly keeping these dirty dealings away from public scrutiny. However, they've rarely turned their eye on themselves to assess just what sort of dirty dealing may be going on in-house. Rumors of dirty dealings had always clung to him, but Nixon had always managed to keep substantive proof of corruption out of the media. Synonyms unfair, dishonest, deceitful, unscrupulous, dishonourable, unsporting, ungentlemanly, below the belt, unethical, unprincipled, immoral 1.7 (of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant. （天气）恶劣的，有暴风雨的 the yacht was ready for dirty weather 游艇已经准备好了对付坏天气。 Example sentencesExamples I've never seen such vicious, dirty weather give up so easily. Where is the obligatory miasma of old industry and dirty weather, you wonder; the thunderheads stripped of silver linings? How else would she describe it, A spot of dirty weather? Yes - to compound our sickness we picked some dirty weather. Synonyms unpleasant, nasty, foul, inclement, rough, bad 1.8 (of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone. （流行音乐）音调失真的；刺耳的 Nirvana's dirty guitar sound 涅槃乐队刺耳的吉他声。 Example sentencesExamples Really, a great disc for anyone who loves deep down, sometimes dirty music. Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks. With this in-your-face romping composition, Alpinestars's dirty electro flirts with raw electric guitars and angelic choirboys. Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals. It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub. Having seen them live I know how dirty and raw some of these songs can sound, and unfortunately the studio recordings lose this a little. On their scathing fifteen-song disc, they do everything they can to bring the danger back to loud, fast, dirty guitar rock. However, in all honesty European have a buzz all of their own driven by great rinky dink, cute/evil keyboard lines and dirty but super melodic guitar hooks. A string section soars through the song and is accompanied by some dirty break beat loops. This is dirty, ragga house at its best and picks up from where ‘Super Stylin’ left off. Even the dirty garage guitar sounds perfect writhing in a bed of electronica on ‘Accelerator.’ Having conquered their own unique brand of dirty, beautifully awkward garage rock, Clinic was left to seek out new castles to storm. You can check out a couple of MP3s on their site but if you like the sound of The Verve filtered through dirty blues rock then you won't go wrong. This is back bedroom electronica at its best, full of big chunky breakbeats, Radiophonic Workshop bleepy things and dirty vocoder interjections. I don't think there has ever been a more filthy dirty gorgeously distorted sound recorded in the whole history of the recording business… He tends to favor cut-up dirty 70s funk guitar samples that he uses mostly to punctuate his chunky beats. LCD Soundsystem is first and foremost, a dance-rock party album full of dirty sounds and nasty grooves. Taken as a whole the album doesn't sound as underground and dirty as you mighty expect, there's one ear here to the commercial market. The dirty, surging guitar behind Milkshake gave it a harder rock feel than the original pop version. Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days. verbˈdərdiˈdərdē [with object] Make dirty. she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels 她不喜欢他弄脏她漂亮干净的毛巾。 Example sentencesExamples Herbs she planted too, though their names are lost to her daughters who have never liked to dirty their hands. Further the render in the area close to the ground will be dirtied by splashes from the ground when it rains. Pigeons carry 60 very nasty diseases as well as ruining our buildings and dirtying our pavements with their droppings. Just one month ago, Caterina Bayes was so afraid of dirtying her spotless Colchester home, she refused to let relatives and friends across the doorstep. We dirty our streets, we break traffic rules, we torment women, we seek dowry, and we discard our old; we wait for our share of impending trouble. When baby dirties herself, clean her up right away. She accuses them of spoiling the sofa and dirtying the linen. He told his secretary to run outside and dirty his shoes in the grass and mud. It is a little walk down a muddy path but the waterfall is a sight worth dirtying your shoes for. His short blond hair was dirtied by the soil and I could tell by the stench of the air that he was bleeding. Pillars turning into arches kept the roof from falling on those who passed through the halls and the floor that once upon a time was solid now a muddy slush dirties everything it touches. The sins range from dirtying the floor with urine (usually by puppies or because they have not been taken outside because the owner is too busy or tired), barking, coming when called or greeting the owner with enthusiasm. I dirty every pot and use the sink like a dumping ground. Mud dragged out by vehicles and heavy machinery entering and exiting the site have also turned the road into a mudbath, dirtying cars and school busses using the route. Wilbur came crawling out from his hiding spot with soot dirtying his face. The banks were muddy and dirtied the boy's tunic even more as he knelt to wash the sweat from his face. Discarded cigarette butts strewn outside Mayo's pubs are dirtying our towns, according to a Mayo litter warden. Synonyms soil, stain, muddy, blacken, mess up, spoil, tarnish, taint, make dirty Phrases the dirty end of the stick informal The difficult or unpleasant part of a task or situation. 〈非正式，主英〉（任务或形势）困难（或讨厌）的部分 Example sentencesExamples It is time that non-white nations, which usually take the dirty end of the stick in such matters, impressed on the ICC to frame tougher rules than merely cutting match fees and points. I personally hope so because in spite of pouring millions of pounds into this corrupt organisation which has not been elected by the British people, we are still getting the dirty end of the stick. And when he gets the dirty end of the stick from an umpire of the elite panel, he has good reason to feel upset. O'Donoghue's suggestion that there is something mythical about the price of living in this country is not just insulting to the millions of people who have been left with the dirty end of the stick - it is also breathtaking in its arrogance. From where I stand, I think our entire region would end up with the dirty end of the stick, so I think we all need to join hands and chant ‘Give Peace a Chance!’ It now seems most likely that Global Trust Bank shareholders will be left holding the dirty end of the stick. get one's hands dirty (or dirty one's hands) 1Do manual, menial, or other hard work. 干体力活，干粗活，干重活 unlike most chairmen, he gets his hands dirty working alongside the other managers 和大多数董事长不同，他不辞辛劳，和其他经理们一起干活。 Example sentencesExamples The Midwest is full of doughy white guys that love to get their hands dirty and work hard, so that shouldn't be a problem. They are asked by their parents to choose a way of life that involves getting their hands dirty for very little or no money. After a life working in data communications for British Telecom, British Gas and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he's now swapped the ordinary office life for a job that really involves getting his hands dirty. The Lowry managers seemed happy to get their hands dirty, though some found it hard going. I never forgot where I'd come from, and I was never too good that I couldn't get my hands dirty and do menial jobs. People think that if you go straight into football you don't appreciate finishing early, that you don't have to get your hands dirty or work hard. Members of the Lions Club got their hands dirty on Thursday night, when they donned gloves and picked up shovels for a clean up of Samson's Lane and Rossglass Beach. And it's getting harder to convince high school students to get their hands dirty when they've come through a system which measures success in terms of a university degree and the size of the pay packet. And those who do have jobs in Yorkshire and the Humber are more likely than anywhere else to be getting their hands dirty in manual or semi-skilled jobs. Don't tell me you once got your hands dirty between VCA and graphic design. 1.1informal Become involved in dishonest or dishonorable activity. 〈非正式〉卷入不诚实（或不名誉）的行动 they can make a lot of money, but fat cats don't get their hands dirty 他们可以赚很多钱，但这些大亨们不想被拉下水。 Example sentencesExamples We weren't even sure whether we wanted to get involved, get our hands dirty with politics. Elections are a dirty business, and Brown makes no apology for getting his hands dirty. Have there been trends where you feel like you're getting your hands dirty by even involving yourself? play dirty informal Act in a dishonest or unfair way. 〈非正式〉做事不诚实（或不公平） Example sentencesExamples Gene Hackman stars as the infamous Rankin Fitch, a jury selection specialist not afraid to play dirty if it gets the results his clients pay him big bucks for. The bad news is that Republicans are doing what they always do: playing dirty. You can, without even resorting to playing dirty. Of course, even when somebody plays dirty, losing is losing and it's not long before nobody cares about the details. Tesco plays dirty, it seems, when it comes to moving in on a new location. During the next election campaign don't be surprised when Labour plays dirty. ‘I play the game hard but there is no way I would devalue the honour of playing for my country by playing dirty,’ Harrison said. He's been giving out specifics, but your folks have been playing dirty. They could play big; they could not play at all; and they may turn up to find Republicans playing dirty. ‘Now, despite all the hopes for military reform, things have returned to square one with the TNI playing dirty, vulgar games and ignoring the political aspirations of the civilian population,’ he said. talk dirty informal Speak about sex in a coarse or obscene way. 〈非正式〉讲下流话 Example sentencesExamples The beauty of talking dirty in the sack is that you communicate it's not only your body which is aroused but your senses and mind as well. The Wau Wau Sisters dress up as schoolgirls and sing mildly blasphemous songs, turn tricks (circus tricks), pile on the lesbian lipstick chic, and talk dirty and giggle at the same time. The film also benefits from some sparkling performances, the pick of which comes from Winslet's Tula as the sassy, sexy and, quite frankly, incendiary femme fatale with a penchant for talking dirty. She says that it is a daily occurrence to be invited to engage in cybersex, or to talk dirty, but she rejects these offers without hesitation. Women who effortlessly talk dirty are exciting and hold the promise of amazing sex. She talks dirty and suggestively, and most of the men just ignore her - but she is particularly forceful if a man doesn't respond to her. In the USA where lawsuits are the nation's favorite hobby, talking dirty to a woman is called Sexual Harassment and is backed up by stiff penalties. They watch the cable-access queen talk dirty, fondle herself and advise callers on their sex lives. My girlfriend always asks me to talk dirty to her during our lovemaking. Then, of course, there's cybersex, which mostly consists of talking dirty to each other. adj.1 phr.
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