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美:[ˈmækjəˌlet]
英:['mækjʊleɪt]
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第三人称单数:maculates
现在分词:maculating
过去式:maculated
过去分词:maculated
词根:macule
n.maculation 斑点;污点
macule 斑点
vi.macule 变得模糊
vt.macule 使…模糊
Verb
1. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically;
"The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"
"Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
2. spot, stain, or pollute;
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Adjective
1. morally blemished; stained or impure
2. spotted or blotched
"spotted, marked with spots," 这个词最早出现在15世纪末,源自拉丁语 maculatus,是 maculare 的过去分词形式,意为“使有斑点,使有斑纹”,源自 macula “斑点,污渍”(参见 macula)。Maculate conception 这个词最早出现在1756年。
斑〔疹〕的,有斑的:同macular
borrowed from Latin maculātus, past participle of maculāre "to cover with stains, soil, disgrace, mark with colored patches," derivative of macula "stain, spot, blemish" — more at macula
The first known use of maculate was in the 15th century
maculateadjective
marked with spots
1 A few drops of lukewarm water maculated the sidewalks with spots as big as dollars.
2 V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
3 But the pace was now so fast and their elevation so great that the landscape swimming beneath his vision was no more than a brownish plain fugitively maculated with blots of contrasting colour.
4 His heavy, blunt hand fumbled under the maculate apron; his chest heaved with a sudden, tempestuous breathing.
5 Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.
6 In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.
7 Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
8 This was a particularly repulsive specimen of its breed; grimy with hardened dust and gummed oil, maculated with yellow-surface-rust, the brasswork green with corrosion.
9 For our hands with such things we may not maculate—
10 And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.
11 From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.
12 Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.
13 A shell had maculated the wall on each side and above the statue, but the little niche and canopy were quite untouched.
14 Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.
15 And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception.
16 Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness, but the roadway was still wet and shining, the wide black mirror of a myriad lights.
17 On thee I see the maculating stains Of passengers' commingled blood and brains.
18 Back in the ages, dusty, maculated, Across the slate-hued fogs of time, Behold them!—oblongs of sliding water And cubed banks, Bridges and barges, blatantly, wonderfully, inconceivably angular, Calling, clamouring—canal, canal, canal!
19 Because the matter been so vile, It may nocht have ane ornate style; Wherefore I pray your Excellence To hear me with great patience: Of stinking weedis maculate No man nay mak ane rose-chaplet.
20 The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
4 沾污的
5 玷污
stained profanation maculation stain poison blemish pollute disgrace blot smudge slur speck tarnish defile sully desecrate speckle besmear slubber imbrue flyblow profanatory attainture discoloration attaint blur discolor beslubber spot cloud soil dirty foul mar smear grime taint smirch begrime unhallow dragthrough the mud
6 沾上污迹
7 弄脏
smeary soilage daggle smut daub black spot soil mess dirty stain foul blur contaminate blob puddle pollute grime smudge taint slur defile slop sully blotch smooch splotch muss vitiate befoul discolour colly slubber begrime smutch blurry smutty smudgy collied pollution contamination soilure smear blot bedabble trachle tar muck denigrate smirch moil gaum bedraggle bedaub
8 有黑点的
10 沾污
11 有斑点的
foxy spotty spotted variolitic heather mottled seeded calico dappled mealy polka-dot freckled punctate heathery maculated
12 有污点的
13 有污瑕的