| 词汇 | excrement |
| 释义 | excrement noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈek.skrə.mənt/ us /ˈek.skrə.mənt/ the solid waste that is released from the bowels of a person or animal: 屎，粪便 human excrement人的粪便 Synonym excretaformal Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion accident anal fissure bathroom be caught/taken shortidiom bodily function bowel cowpat defecate dog dirt dunghill excreta excrete go to the bathroomidiom motion movement pass poo poop regular stool excrement | American Dictionaryexcrement noun[ U ] us/ˈek·skrə·mənt/ waste material that leaves the body through the bowels Examples of excrementexcrement On a carefully managed pasture, nutrients cycle from soil to plants to animals and through their excrement, to soil. However, the study did not include analysis of leachates from leaf litter and direct deposition of invertebrate (and sometimes vertebrate) carcasses and excrement. They are attracted to excrement, decaying, putrefying or purulent substances. I have found them commonly in human excrement and in a variety of decaying vegetable substances, even in rotting grass. It can only be a predator and a scavenger eating dirt, excrement and human flesh. In pre-industrial societies urban waste had largely been recycled, with animal and human excrement employed as fertilizer in the surrounding countryside. Her daughter-in-law remained the only person to bring water and rice gruel three times a day and to clean away her excrement in the evening. Barles considers how growing urban centres in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries learned to cope with massive volumes of human and animal excrement and contaminated liquids. Swammerdam figured what would appear to be the larva of this species as breeding in human excrement. Chemical "digestion" was understood as analogous to natural digestion, where beneficial substances were separated from excrement in the human digestive system. At the end of the larval feeding period, the insects bore deep into the wood to construct a pupal cell that is plugged with wood fibres and excrement. Guano, sea-bird excrement, is a fertiliser that was used by hop and other farmers during and after the second half of the nineteenth century. Dog excrement is to be found on pavements everywhere, on the grass where children play, on the beaches and on the piers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to make it quite clear that all of us are opposed to the direct entry into river or canal water of human excrement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The local factory has been surrounded for 17 days by a sea of human excrement and other rubbish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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