pestle

['pestl]

n.杵, 乳钵槌

例句与用法:

Help has been too little and too late or too far from where it was most needed. The flood-gates of famine and pestilence are already open.

援助是那么少,那么晚,要不就是离急需的地区那么远。这么一来饥荒和瘟疫就已经泛滥成灾了。

A pestilence was raging in that area.

瘟疫正在那个地方流行。

词形变化:

动词过去式: pestled | 动词过去分词: pestled | 动词现在分词: pestling | 动词第三人称单数: pestles |

详细释义:

n.

(捣研用的)杵; 碾槌[C]

vt.

(用杵)捣; 研碎

vi.

(用杵)捣; 研碎