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Definition of rotten in English: rottenadjectiverottener, rottenest ˈrɒt(ə)nˈrɑtn 1Suffering from decay. 腐烂的；发臭的 发臭的蛋。 the supporting beams were rotten 支撑的横梁烂了。 Example sentencesExamples - There was a peculiar smell in the air, one of rotten eggs or meat, the smell of sulfur.
- If that wasn't bad enough, it also smelled of putrid rotten eggs.
- A smell that resembled rotten eggs filled her nostrils.
- The air was green with the stench of fetid and rotten flesh.
- Professor John Marangos hurls still another batch of rotten tomatoes at the neoclassical approach to political economy.
- With that Max rammed head first into the wall and the rotten wood began to splinter.
- The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
- Most of the people who passed her during the daytime would either spit at her or come along and pelt the door with rotten vegetable and eggs for their own amusement.
- What I see is a whole lot of rotten tomatoes.
- I caught it too… a foul, noxious odor, the sulfur of rotten eggs, the reek of sewage and decay.
- There were a couple of trashcans along it, and they spewed nasty smelling piles of half rotten food, and junk.
- Robber fly adults lay eggs in the summer in soil or rotten wood.
- People show up at your gigs armed with rotten fruit to throw at you.
- Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
- The forest floor often is covered with duff from rotten pine needles, logs, and leaves.
- There were about ten of them, varying in age and height, but all with the same dark eyes and dirty faces, rotten teeth and tearful, pleading voices.
- They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
- Kernels are removed from the cob and mixed in a ratio of one-third clean, one-third spoiled, and one-third rotten.
- Pools of boiling hot mud - filling the air with the smell of sulfur, similar to rotten eggs - are seen not far from the island's beautiful beaches.
- The foul stench of blood, mingled with that of rotten flesh, permeated the air.
Synonyms decaying, decayed, rotting, bad, off, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrescent, spoiled, spoilt, tainted, perished, mouldy, mouldering, mildewy, sour, rancid, rank, festering, fetid, stinking, smelly, unfit for human consumption addled maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown disintegrating, crumbling, falling to pieces, decomposing, decaying corroding decaying, decayed, crumbling, carious, black rare caried - 1.1 Morally, socially, or politically corrupt.
（道德、社会或政治）腐败的，腐化的，堕落的 he believed that the whole art business was rotten 他认为整个艺术业都堕落了。 Example sentencesExamples - Dirty rotten unionists will be revealed as the faceless powerbrokers of Labor.
- The loyalist public relations battle had been well and truly lost and it was left to the politicians to try once again to paper over something most rotten.
- Nobody's evil here, except for a few rotten Templars intent on picking a fight.
- Claudius, in a setting of mid-Victorian Gothic, was marked as the villain and focus of all that was rotten in Denmark.
- He hardly had the outer appearance of a man who was rotten with evil on the inside.
- Few raise their voices to remember the thousands who suffered at the hands of the morally rotten medics who worked for the Imperial Army war effort.
- It's a sharp economic slowdown caused by a mood of irrational despair fed by press and political hype about what's rotten in American capitalism.
- "The state sector is rotten to the core, " says Wang.
- But the problem for this Government is that it is rotten to the core.
- If political stability could be achieved by toppling a rotten dictator or if nations could be built at gunpoint, this problem would not be so pressing.
- Until we smash the whole rotten system, it will happen again and again.
- For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.
- I felt trapped within a stupid, rotten, dishonest system which brutalised people too naive to know any better, consumed our idealism.
- Sometimes, you get the feeling that the industry knows that something is rotten at its heart, but doesn't really want to let on.
- No one in this movie is inherently evil; they are products of a system that is rotten to the core.
- The question may be asked whether there was something rotten in the state of France.
- She insists that the whole corporate system is rotten and even murkier crimes are committed in the financial world every day.
- Judging by recent films, things may not be quite rotten in Denmark, but Scandinavians seem no more immune to family horrors than we do.
- His book was one of the first to lay down just how rotten and corrupt the Florida election was.
Synonyms corrupt, unprincipled, dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, immoral, villainous, bad, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, vicious, base, amoral, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated, depraved, perverted, wanton venal informal crooked, warped British informal bent nasty, unkind, unpleasant, foul, bad, obnoxious, vile, contemptible, despicable, wretched, shabby spiteful, mean, malicious, poisonous, mean-spirited, cruel, hateful, hurtful unfair, uncharitable, uncalled for, below the belt, unacceptable, unwarranted informal dirty, filthy, dirty rotten, low-down, off British informal beastly, out of order vulgar slang shitty
2informal Very bad. 〈非正式〉蹩脚的；极差劲的 她是个很差劲的厨师。 Example sentencesExamples - If you only knew how many lousy meals and rotten movies he has dragged Diana to throughout the years.
- You're absolutely, indisputably rotten to the bone!
- Americans may remember auto manufacturer, which vanished from the U.S. market in 1987, for poor quality and rotten reliability.
- There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round.
- Mary might have been an extremely intelligent woman but she had rotten judgment in men.
- If I harp on how rotten the production is, it's because I have few qualms with the music, outside of the first track, which is just aimless.
- In general, funds with poor long-term past performance tend to have rotten future performance.
- When you become pregnant, hopefully many years from now, you'll see just how rotten your mood can get.
- The year after an election is often rotten for stocks.
- I am sick of my mom telling me how rotten I am and sick of the courts ordering me to places like this.
- Frankly, the worst thing about choruses is that they have absolutely rotten senses of humour.
- ‘No chance - it's just really rotten luck,’ he said.
- What begins with hope and freshness in each case quickly degenerates into something twisted and rotten.
- There are plenty of rotten American films that had a great political impact.
Synonyms bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, laughable, substandard informal crummy, pathetic, useless, lousy, appalling, abysmal, dire British informal duff, chronic, poxy, rubbish, pants, a load of pants North American vulgar slang chickenshit wretched, horrible, unspeakable informal damn, damned, blasted, blessed, flaming, precious, confounded British informal flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing North American informal goddam Australian/New Zealand informal plurry British informal, dated bally, ruddy, deuced vulgar slang fucking, frigging British vulgar slang sodding Irish vulgar slang fecking - 2.1 Extremely unpleasant.
〈非正式〉令人极不愉快的；极不幸的；极讨厌的 it's rotten for you having to cope on your own 你得自己应付，真是太苦了。 Example sentencesExamples - Taking away days and weeks worth of effort in a single stroke is a lousy rotten thing to do to your patrons.
- I can't wait to get out of this dirty, rotten place.
- We're told that the folks from here are evil, but we never see them do anything very rotten.
- Toward the end of the film, one of our villains does something very rotten, and Green takes action that indirectly leads to this person's demise.
- What a fine mess that rotten cousin of yours has gotten her poor sister into!
- Well, of all the dirty, rotten, evil things for someone to do!
- I didn't stop to think that I was being pretty rotten myself.
- That's one reason that I thought she'd had a rotten time at the social.
- He reeked and tears filled her eyes from a mix of his rotten smell and the pain his dirty fingernails were causing as they dug into her cheek.
- No matter how rotten the day had been or how lonely his life had become, she ignited a spark inside him that he'd considered dead and buried.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, miserable, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, bad, vile, grim, horrid, horrible, ghastly disappointing, regrettable, unfortunate, unlucky informal lousy, beastly, diabolical British informal shocking - 2.2 Unwell.
〈非正式〉身体不适的；有病的 she tried to tell me she felt rotten 她试图告诉我她感到身体不适。 Example sentencesExamples - I feel ready, but I was pretty nervous yesterday after feeling so rotten.
- She's feeling rotten from the anaesthetic but otherwise she is fine.
Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy, light-headed British off, off colour informal under the weather, below par, not up to par, funny, peculiar, rough, lousy, awful, terrible, dreadful, crummy British informal grotty, ropy Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally Australian/New Zealand informal crook vulgar slang crappy dated queer, seedy rare peaked, peakish
adverb ˈrɒt(ə)nˈrɑtn informal To an extreme degree; very much. 〈非正式〉非常，极其 your mother said that I spoiled you rotten 你母亲说我把你宠得不得了。 we used to send him up something rotten 我们过去常极尽能事地模仿他的各种样子来取笑作乐。 Example sentencesExamples - The last child is an eight-year-old girl and spoiled rotten.
- You know that my mother spoils both my children rotten.
- He adored Rebecca more than anything else on the planet, and proved that continuously by spoiling her rotten and buying her whatever her heart desired.
- I wish her to leave here and find her own happiness, a life where a person would treasure her and make her the luckiest person in the world for the rest of her life and spoil her rotten.
- Mothers were supposed to harass you until you had your own children, after which they spoiled your children rotten.
- His daughter starts off trying to kill Blade and ends up fancying him rotten.
- Easter was great and I spoiled Riley rotten by buying her lots of stuff.
- She's also spoiled rotten because she's Mother's favorite, even though she's a year younger than I am.
- Henriette grew to rival her mother's beauty, but was eventually spoiled quite rotten by the fact that she was the only girl in the family.
- She was just spoilt rotten, and always got her way.
- He is a decent, dull-faced fellow who appears completely normal, which is more than can be said for the local copper, who fancies Rachel rotten.
- It was times like these when he wished he had had a sister growing up so he could spoil her rotten and always have someone to be close to.
- The next day, I moved in with my grandparents, who lived on the north side of Metrocon, and I guess to help me heal, they spoiled me rotten.
- The girls were all in high school and were spoiled rotten, always showing off their latest buys at the mall, totally obsessed with themselves.
- There he learns the true meaning of being spoiled rotten.
- His lips slid along her cheek to whisper into her ear, ‘Let me spoil you rotten today.’
- At school, people practically fell over each other to date him, and where his parents were concerned, well, they just spoiled him rotten.
- The rich children were spoiled rotten, and lived in sharp contrast to the rich teenagers, who were all very good and very dull.
- But Dash was the true love of her life and she spoilt him rotten.
- Bailey is pretty much our baby and we spoil her rotten.
Synonyms very much, a lot, a great deal really
Derivativesadverb ˈrɒt(ə)nliˈrɑtnli Regardless of good or bad actions, the males come out of the story rottenly, whereas the females end happily. Example sentencesExamples - ‘The workers have done everything for the company but we've been treated rottenly,’ said the father of two.
- Giving his description of the game, he said ‘Young Norman Brookes has a rottenly brilliant game’.
- It could well be true, and not just by luck, that Essendon played rottenly, the Easybeats played brilliantly, yet Essendon won.
- Women weren't allowed to go to sea, and if Siladena had tried to disguise herself, she must have done pretty rottenly in this colorful top.
noun ˈrɒt(ə)nnəsˈrɑtnnəs He grabbed my arm harshly and peered into my face so that I could see the horrible yellow rottenness of his teeth and smell his drink-addled breath. Example sentencesExamples - It's bad if it hides corruption and crime, and fails to reveal the rottenness at the core of the organization.
- He has a long background of becoming persona non grata in places where he has struggled against what he considers to be endemic rottenness in society.
- It merely exposed the rottenness and the hypocrisy of the establishment he hated anyway.
- But the actual reason Eastern spices were so much valued for so long was that their hot flavours concealed the taste of rottenness in the meat they were cooked with.
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse rotinn. Rhymesbegotten, cotton, forgotten, ill-gotten, misbegotten Definition of rotten in US English: rottenadjectiveˈrätnˈrɑtn 1Suffering from decay. 腐烂的；发臭的 发臭的蛋。 the supporting beams were rotten 支撑的横梁烂了。 Example sentencesExamples - There were about ten of them, varying in age and height, but all with the same dark eyes and dirty faces, rotten teeth and tearful, pleading voices.
- With that Max rammed head first into the wall and the rotten wood began to splinter.
- Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
- The forest floor often is covered with duff from rotten pine needles, logs, and leaves.
- I caught it too… a foul, noxious odor, the sulfur of rotten eggs, the reek of sewage and decay.
- What I see is a whole lot of rotten tomatoes.
- There were a couple of trashcans along it, and they spewed nasty smelling piles of half rotten food, and junk.
- Robber fly adults lay eggs in the summer in soil or rotten wood.
- Most of the people who passed her during the daytime would either spit at her or come along and pelt the door with rotten vegetable and eggs for their own amusement.
- Professor John Marangos hurls still another batch of rotten tomatoes at the neoclassical approach to political economy.
- A smell that resembled rotten eggs filled her nostrils.
- Kernels are removed from the cob and mixed in a ratio of one-third clean, one-third spoiled, and one-third rotten.
- The foul stench of blood, mingled with that of rotten flesh, permeated the air.
- Pools of boiling hot mud - filling the air with the smell of sulfur, similar to rotten eggs - are seen not far from the island's beautiful beaches.
- There was a peculiar smell in the air, one of rotten eggs or meat, the smell of sulfur.
- People show up at your gigs armed with rotten fruit to throw at you.
- They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
- The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
- If that wasn't bad enough, it also smelled of putrid rotten eggs.
- The air was green with the stench of fetid and rotten flesh.
Synonyms decaying, decayed, rotting, bad, off, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrescent, spoiled, spoilt, tainted, perished, mouldy, mouldering, mildewy, sour, rancid, rank, festering, fetid, stinking, smelly, unfit for human consumption disintegrating, crumbling, falling to pieces, decomposing, decaying decaying, decayed, crumbling, carious, black - 1.1 Morally, socially, or politically corrupt.
（道德、社会或政治）腐败的，腐化的，堕落的 he believed that the whole art business was rotten 他认为整个艺术业都堕落了。 Example sentencesExamples - Dirty rotten unionists will be revealed as the faceless powerbrokers of Labor.
- No one in this movie is inherently evil; they are products of a system that is rotten to the core.
- Until we smash the whole rotten system, it will happen again and again.
- It's a sharp economic slowdown caused by a mood of irrational despair fed by press and political hype about what's rotten in American capitalism.
- For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.
- But the problem for this Government is that it is rotten to the core.
- She insists that the whole corporate system is rotten and even murkier crimes are committed in the financial world every day.
- The loyalist public relations battle had been well and truly lost and it was left to the politicians to try once again to paper over something most rotten.
- Judging by recent films, things may not be quite rotten in Denmark, but Scandinavians seem no more immune to family horrors than we do.
- The question may be asked whether there was something rotten in the state of France.
- I felt trapped within a stupid, rotten, dishonest system which brutalised people too naive to know any better, consumed our idealism.
- He hardly had the outer appearance of a man who was rotten with evil on the inside.
- "The state sector is rotten to the core, " says Wang.
- Nobody's evil here, except for a few rotten Templars intent on picking a fight.
- If political stability could be achieved by toppling a rotten dictator or if nations could be built at gunpoint, this problem would not be so pressing.
- Few raise their voices to remember the thousands who suffered at the hands of the morally rotten medics who worked for the Imperial Army war effort.
- Claudius, in a setting of mid-Victorian Gothic, was marked as the villain and focus of all that was rotten in Denmark.
- His book was one of the first to lay down just how rotten and corrupt the Florida election was.
- Sometimes, you get the feeling that the industry knows that something is rotten at its heart, but doesn't really want to let on.
Synonyms corrupt, unprincipled, dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, immoral, villainous, bad, wicked, evil, sinful, iniquitous, vicious, base, amoral, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated, depraved, perverted, wanton nasty, unkind, unpleasant, foul, bad, obnoxious, vile, contemptible, despicable, wretched, shabby - 1.2informal Very bad.
〈非正式〉蹩脚的；极差劲的 她是个很差劲的厨师。 Example sentencesExamples - If I harp on how rotten the production is, it's because I have few qualms with the music, outside of the first track, which is just aimless.
- What begins with hope and freshness in each case quickly degenerates into something twisted and rotten.
- Mary might have been an extremely intelligent woman but she had rotten judgment in men.
- I am sick of my mom telling me how rotten I am and sick of the courts ordering me to places like this.
- In general, funds with poor long-term past performance tend to have rotten future performance.
- Americans may remember auto manufacturer, which vanished from the U.S. market in 1987, for poor quality and rotten reliability.
- You're absolutely, indisputably rotten to the bone!
- There are plenty of rotten American films that had a great political impact.
- ‘No chance - it's just really rotten luck,’ he said.
- There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round.
- Frankly, the worst thing about choruses is that they have absolutely rotten senses of humour.
- When you become pregnant, hopefully many years from now, you'll see just how rotten your mood can get.
- The year after an election is often rotten for stocks.
- If you only knew how many lousy meals and rotten movies he has dragged Diana to throughout the years.
Synonyms bad, poor, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, laughable, substandard wretched, horrible, unspeakable - 1.3informal Extremely unpleasant.
〈非正式〉令人极不愉快的；极不幸的；极讨厌的 it's rotten for you having to cope on your own 你得自己应付，真是太苦了。 Example sentencesExamples - We're told that the folks from here are evil, but we never see them do anything very rotten.
- I didn't stop to think that I was being pretty rotten myself.
- What a fine mess that rotten cousin of yours has gotten her poor sister into!
- I can't wait to get out of this dirty, rotten place.
- Taking away days and weeks worth of effort in a single stroke is a lousy rotten thing to do to your patrons.
- No matter how rotten the day had been or how lonely his life had become, she ignited a spark inside him that he'd considered dead and buried.
- Well, of all the dirty, rotten, evil things for someone to do!
- That's one reason that I thought she'd had a rotten time at the social.
- He reeked and tears filled her eyes from a mix of his rotten smell and the pain his dirty fingernails were causing as they dug into her cheek.
- Toward the end of the film, one of our villains does something very rotten, and Green takes action that indirectly leads to this person's demise.
Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, miserable, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, bad, vile, grim, horrid, horrible, ghastly - 1.4informal predicative Unwell.
〈非正式〉身体不适的；有病的 she tried to tell me she felt rotten 她试图告诉我她感到身体不适。 Example sentencesExamples - She's feeling rotten from the anaesthetic but otherwise she is fine.
- I feel ready, but I was pretty nervous yesterday after feeling so rotten.
Synonyms ill, unwell, poorly, bad, out of sorts, indisposed, not oneself, sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, peaky, liverish, green about the gills, run down, washed out, faint, dizzy, giddy, light-headed
adverbˈrätnˈrɑtn informal To an extreme degree; very much. 〈非正式〉非常，极其 your mother said that I spoiled you rotten 你母亲说我把你宠得不得了。 Example sentencesExamples - He is a decent, dull-faced fellow who appears completely normal, which is more than can be said for the local copper, who fancies Rachel rotten.
- I wish her to leave here and find her own happiness, a life where a person would treasure her and make her the luckiest person in the world for the rest of her life and spoil her rotten.
- He adored Rebecca more than anything else on the planet, and proved that continuously by spoiling her rotten and buying her whatever her heart desired.
- At school, people practically fell over each other to date him, and where his parents were concerned, well, they just spoiled him rotten.
- The rich children were spoiled rotten, and lived in sharp contrast to the rich teenagers, who were all very good and very dull.
- It was times like these when he wished he had had a sister growing up so he could spoil her rotten and always have someone to be close to.
- The girls were all in high school and were spoiled rotten, always showing off their latest buys at the mall, totally obsessed with themselves.
- Henriette grew to rival her mother's beauty, but was eventually spoiled quite rotten by the fact that she was the only girl in the family.
- You know that my mother spoils both my children rotten.
- Bailey is pretty much our baby and we spoil her rotten.
- The last child is an eight-year-old girl and spoiled rotten.
- But Dash was the true love of her life and she spoilt him rotten.
- She was just spoilt rotten, and always got her way.
- His daughter starts off trying to kill Blade and ends up fancying him rotten.
- Mothers were supposed to harass you until you had your own children, after which they spoiled your children rotten.
- His lips slid along her cheek to whisper into her ear, ‘Let me spoil you rotten today.’
- There he learns the true meaning of being spoiled rotten.
- Easter was great and I spoiled Riley rotten by buying her lots of stuff.
- The next day, I moved in with my grandparents, who lived on the north side of Metrocon, and I guess to help me heal, they spoiled me rotten.
- She's also spoiled rotten because she's Mother's favorite, even though she's a year younger than I am.
Synonyms very much, a lot, a great deal
OriginMiddle English: from Old Norse rotinn. |