rot

1. V-T/V-I When food, wood, or another substance rots, or when something rots it, it becomes softer and is gradually destroyed. 腐爛

If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos. 如果我們不馬上卸貨，這些糧食在倉中將開始腐爛。

2. N-UNCOUNT If there is rot in something, especially something that is made of wood, parts of it have decayed and fallen apart. 腐朽

Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor. 檢測顯示一樓下面的橫梁已經(jīng)有大面積的腐爛。

3. N-SING You can use the rot to refer to the way something gradually gets worse. For example, if you are talking about the time when the rot set in, you are talking about the time when a situation began to get steadily worse and worse. 逐步惡化

In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time. 在許多學校，情況正在逐步惡化，水準在不斷降低。

4. V-I If you say that someone is being left to rot in a particular place, especially in a prison, you mean that they are being left there and their physical and mental condition is being allowed to get worse and worse. 身心退化

Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot. 大多數(shù)政府只能任由長期失業(yè)者頹廢下去。

5. ABBREVIATION for rotation (of a mathematical function) (數(shù)學函數(shù)上的)循環(huán)