mouldering是什么意思？

mouldering

英['məʊldərɪŋ] 美['moʊldərɪŋ]

• v. <美>腐朽( moulder的现在分词 )，腐烂，崩塌；

例句

• Similarly, disgust is going to stop you biting into a mouldering pile of rotten food. 类似地, 厌恶会阻止你撕咬腐烂的食物.
• Every mouldering stone was a chronicle. 每块崩碎剥落的石头都是一部编年史.
• The room smelt of disuse and mouldering books. 房间里有一股长期不用和霉烂书籍的味道。
• ...one of your scripts that's been mouldering under the bed for ages... 你的一部在床下尘封已久已经开始腐烂的书稿

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  腐烂;崩塌;腐朽
  If something is mouldering, it is decaying slowly where it has been left.
  例句
  ...one of your scripts that's been mouldering under the bed for ages... 你的一部在床下尘封已久已经开始腐烂的书稿 It is clear that such ideas will be left to moulder. 明摆着，这些想法将无人问津。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. becoming rotten;
  "a field covered with thousands of decomposing bodies""John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave"