Picture a beam of sunlight coming through a window into a quiet room: you can see tiny grey floating in it, and if you run a finger along the shelf, a soft grey line comes off on your fingertip. Dust can be thought of as stuff broken so small and so dry that it floats in the air and settles as a thin layer on everything. Two features of that picture do all the work: it is fine powder, and it settles. The powder half gives dust on the road, gold dust, dusting sugar on a cake; the settling half gives dusting the shelves and waiting for the dust to settle.
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原始詞典資料36 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dustname
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A surname.
dustnoun/dʌst/
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Fine particles.
- There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.
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Fine particles.
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astronomynatural-sciencesFine particles.
- Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.
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Fine particles.
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datedslangFine particles.
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obsoleteFine particles.
- to touch a dust of England’s ground
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The act of cleaning by dusting.
- […]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn’t it?
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The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
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Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]
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The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- For now shall I sleep in the dust.
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The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather’d to the glorious saints.
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The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
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Something worthless.
- And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.
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A low or mean condition.
- [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.
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Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
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datedslangcash; money (in reference to gold dust).
- ‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’
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A cloud of dust.
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A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- to raise, or kick up, a dust
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A fight or row.
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mathematicssciencesA totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
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businesscryptocurrenciescryptocurrencyTiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
dustverb/dʌst/
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To remove dust from.
- The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
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To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- Dusting always makes me cough.
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archaicTo make dusty, to soil with dust.
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Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
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To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.
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To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
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slangTo leave quickly; to rush off.
- He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
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obsoleteTo drink up quickly; to toss off.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteTo reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
- good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it
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dialectalTo strike, beat, thrash.
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slangTo defeat badly, to thrash.
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slangTo kill.
- Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
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businesscryptocurrenciescryptocurrencyTo attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
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