| 词汇 | moisten |
| 释义 | moisten verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈmɔɪ.sən/ us /ˈmɔɪ.sən/ to make something slightly wet or to become slightly wet: 弄湿，沾湿;（使）变潮湿 Moisten the cloth before using it to clean glass.用布擦玻璃前先把布弄湿。 to cover in or fill with liquid wetWet the flannel before you wipe the child's face. moistenHe licked his lips to moisten them. dampenUse a dampened paper towel to clean the cooker. saturateFully saturate the ground after planting seeds. soakSoak the clothes with detergent overnight. Wet weather & wetness clammily clamminess clammy damp damply dampness dankly douse moist monsoon rehydration remoisten rewet saturation semi-dry sleety soak soaked sodden waterlogged Examples of moistenmoisten They can then be easily picked up with a small moistened paint-brush and transferred at once to the alcohol in the collecting tubes. Both groups were sowed in plastic trays (37 x 28 cm) containing regularly moistened vermiculite. Environmental samples were taken with swabs moistened in brain heart infusion broth and processed as above. If the species are very active, they may be touched with a camel's hair brush moistened with chloroform or ammonia. A thin layer of moistened vermiculite covered the bottom of the vials and served as a pupation substrate for the emerging parasitoid larvae. Preliminary tests using moistened or steamed sweaty socks seemed to induce an attractancy even greater than that reported above. This ensured that the seeds were evenly moistened, but not inundated. Each cut end was covered with a small piece of filter paper moistened with the benzimidazole solution. Sown seeds were inspected daily and moistened as often as necessary. Each towel was moistened with 30 g of water. This procedure was necessary in order to moisten the pericarp and endosperm before excision. Each assay was performed with two germination chambers (replicates) containing 50 seeds placed on a layer of cotton wool moistened with distilled water. When the fruit started to dry up through time, it was sprayed with water, then rolled and mixed to ensure all fruits were moistened. The open dishes were moistened with 15 ml of barley extract per dish from each of the barley variety extracts. Caregivers were instructed to moisten the end of the dental cotton roll by placing it briefly in the child's mouth. 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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