rot /rɒt/ CET6 TEM4 ( rotting, rotted, rots )

• 1. 

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

  例：

  If we don't unload it soon, the grain will start rotting in the silos.

  如果我们不马上卸货，这些粮食在仓中将开始腐烂。

• 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

  例：

  Investigations had revealed extensive rot in the beams under the ground floor.

  检测显示一楼下面的横梁已经有大面积的腐烂。

• 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. 逐步恶化

  例：

  In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time.

  在许多学校，情况正在逐步恶化，水准在不断降低。

• 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

  例：

  Most governments simply leave the long-term jobless to rot.

  大多数政府只能任由长期失业者颓废下去。

• 5. 

  ABBREVIATION for rotation (of a mathematical function) (数学函数上的)循环