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VERB
洗滌;清洗
If you wash something, you clean it using water and usually a substance such as soap or detergent.
例句
He got a job washing dishes in a pizza parlour...
他在比薩店里找到一份洗盤子的工作。
The colours gently fade each time you wash the shirt...
襯衣每洗一次都會褪點色。
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VERB
洗;洗漱
If you wash or if you wash part of your body, especially your hands and face, you clean part of your body using soap and water.
例句
They looked as if they hadn't washed in days...
他們看起來好像已經有好些天沒洗澡了。
She washed her face with cold water...
她用涼水洗了把臉。
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V-ERG
(海水或河流)流動，沖刷，沖到
If a sea or river washes somewhere, it flows there gently. You can also say that something carried by a sea or river washes or is washed somewhere.
例句
The sea washed against the shore...
海水沖刷著海岸。
The oil washed ashore on roughly 1,000 miles of coastline...
石油沿著海岸線擴散到了大約1,000英里范圍的沿岸海域。
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N-SING
(船只等激起的)浪花
The wash of a boat is the wave that it causes on either side as it moves through the water.
例句
...the wash from large ships.
大船激起的浪花
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VERB
(情感)強烈沖擊
If a feeling washes over you, you suddenly feel it very strongly and cannot control it.
例句
A wave of self-consciousness can wash over her when someone new enters the room...
一有陌生人進房間，她就感到極不自在。
The overpowering despair that he'd fought so hard to keep at bay washed through the boy.
一直極力壓制的絕望情緒終于將男孩擊垮了。
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N-COUNT
（顏色、光線等的）薄層
A wash of something such as light or colour is a thin layer of it.
例句
The lights from the truck sent a wash of pale light over the snow.
卡車的車燈在雪地上灑下一層淡淡的光。
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VERB
令人信服;使人接受
If you say that an excuse or idea will not wash, you mean that people will not accept or believe it.
例句
He said her policies didn't work and the excuses didn't wash...
他認為她的政策沒有起到效果，而且理由也不能令人信服。
If they believe that solution would wash with the Haitian people, they are making a dramatic error.
如果他們認為海地人會接受那個解決方案，那他們就大錯特錯了。
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PHRASE
真相大白;水落石出
If you say that something will come out in the wash, you mean that people will eventually find out the truth about it.
例句
This will all come out in the wash—I promise you.
一切終會真相大白的——我向你保證。
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PHRASE
正在洗著;將要洗;剛洗過
If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
例句
Your jeans are in the wash.
你的牛仔褲還在洗著呢。