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- a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants杂草, 野草。
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- mass noun any wild plant growing in salt or fresh water水生植物。
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- informal cannabis〈非正式〉大麻。
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the weed
informal tobacco〈非正式〉烟草。
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- informal a person regarded as contemptibly feeble〈非正式〉下贱懦弱的人。
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- informal a leggy, loosely built horse〈非正式〉(长腿)瘦弱的马。
with obj.
1- remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground or the plants cultivated in it)清除…的杂草:
I was weeding a flower bed.
我当时在清除花坛的杂草。
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weed something out
remove something, especially inferior or unwanted items or members from a group or collection剔除, 淘汰:we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work.
我们必须提高研究水平, 把质量最差的工作剔除。
派生词
weeder
nounweedless
adjective词源
Old English wēod (noun), wēodian (verb), of unknown origin; related to Dutch wieden (verb).