grimy
音标：
英音/ ˈɡraɪmi /美音/ ˈɡraɪmi /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
The man Sotheby’s considers the owner of the van Gogh lives in a Shanghai apartment complex where gray tiles and grimy grout frame a weather-beaten door.
苏富比认为梵高画作的主人住在上海的一座公寓大楼里，灰色的瓷砖和肮脏的水泥浆围着一扇饱经风霜的门。
—New York Times
Mr. Trump is expected to enter the often grimy and ill-lit building with his Secret Service protection to answer charges before a state judge on Tuesday.
预计特朗普将在特勤局的保护下进入这座经常肮脏且光线昏暗的建筑，周二在州法官面前接受指控。
—New York Times
Down in the “Culture Courtyard”, crowds were shuffling to a grimy funk track which morphed into revved-up disco then deep house.
在“文化庭院”里，人群随着肮脏的放克音乐慢慢前行，逐渐演变成激烈的迪斯科音乐，然后是深沉的浩室音乐。
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
肮脏的，污秽的
同义词：
begrimed,dingy,grubby,grungy,raunchy
短释义：
When something is grimy, the dirt is ingrained or set in, not just on the surface. Jobs that leave you covered in oil, tar, or dirt are grimy. If you wear gloves to transplant your grandma’s flowers, you won’t end up with grimy fingernails. The adjective grimy comes from grime, “ingrained dirt,” which goes back to a root that means “to smear.”
肮脏的东西太脏了，需要一些擦洗才能清洁它们。经过一天的尝试修理旧汽车的发动机后，您可能会感到非常肮脏。
长释义：
When something is grimy, the dirt is ingrained or set in, not just on the surface. Jobs that leave you covered in oil, tar, or dirt are grimy. If you wear gloves to transplant your grandma’s flowers, you won’t end up with grimy fingernails. The adjective grimy comes from grime, “ingrained dirt,” which goes back to a root that means “to smear.”
当某物肮脏时，污垢会根深蒂固或固定在其中，而不仅仅是表面上。让你浑身沾满油、焦油或污垢的工作是肮脏的。如果你戴上手套来移植祖母的花，你的指甲就不会脏了。形容词“grimy”来自grime，“根深蒂固的污垢”，它可以追溯到意思是“涂抹”的词根。
文学例句：
Several grimy portraits had been scrubbed, much to the displeasure of their subjects, who sat huddled in their frames muttering darkly and wincing as they felt their raw pink faces.
几幅肮脏的肖像被擦掉了，这让拍摄对象非常不高兴，他们坐在画框里，阴暗地嘀咕着，感觉到自己粉红色的脸时，他们皱起了眉头。
—Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The mere sight of her grimy right hand with its black fingernails digging an ounce of Chocolate Fudge out of a jar would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop.
只要看到她肮脏的右手和黑色的指甲从罐子里挖出一盎司的巧克力软糖，就会让一个饥饿的流浪汉从商店逃跑。
—Boy: Tales of a Childhood by Roald Dahl
The pair wandered through the dimly lit, littered, and stinking street, bending over grimy bums asleep in doorways, raising them to their unsteady feet, and leading the ragtag procession into a decaying storefront.
两人在灯光昏暗、乱七八糟、散发着恶臭的街道上漫步，弯下身子扶着睡在门口、浑身脏兮兮的流浪汉，把他们扶起来，然后带领这群乌合之众走进一家破旧的店面。
—The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
词源：
grimy (adj.)1610s, from grime + -y (2). “App[arently] not in literary use during the 18th c.” [OED]. Related: Griminess.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
grimy (adj.)1610s，来自 grime + -y (2)。 “在 18 世纪期间，显然没有用于文学用途。” [牛津英语词典]。相关：Griminess.相关条目及更多
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