in the wash

基本解釋

This cloth shrinks in the wash.
這種布一洗就抽。
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AN open tap in the wash room filled a basin to overflowing.
盥洗室里的水龍頭開著，水不斷溢出水盆。
While phosphates help prevent dishes from spotting in the wash cycle, they have long ended up in lakes and reservoirs, stimulating algae growth that deprives other plants and fish of oxygen.
磷酸鹽在防止洗滌過程中在碗碟上留下水漬的同時，也會在湖泊和水庫中殘留很長的時間，刺激藻類的生長，而這些藻類將搶走其他植物和魚類的氧氣。

"The smell and rotten taste, you couldn't take a shower in it because the smell stayed on your skin, you couldn't wash clothes in it,"
It will wash away and so you got to pick the right materials in order to build a bridge.
它可能會被水沖走,之后人們就會選擇更好的材料,以造出了更為堅固的橋
耶魯公開課 - 生物醫(yī)學工程探索課程節(jié)選
In terms of the benefits of the spoils of government versus the cost of running, it's a wash for Claire Elise, whether she enters or not.
從利益角度來看,政府的獎勵對參選的成本,對克萊爾·伊莉斯來說它是零,無論她參不參選
耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節(jié)選

"They didn't care who got lost in the wash, " Panish told the jury.
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