| 词汇 | cesspit |
| 释义 | cesspitDaily life cess·pit /ˈsesˌpɪt/ noun [countableC] 1. (also cesspool /ˈsesˌpuːl/)DCLEAN a large hole or container under the ground in which waste from a building, especially from the toilets, is collected 污水坑；化粪池 2 SERIOUS SITUATIONa place or situation in which people behave in a bad or immoral way 罪恶的渊薮，藏污纳垢之地 For weeks the affair threatened to be a cesspit of scandal. 几个星期来，这一事件眼看就要成为丑闻的滋生源。 Examples from the Corpus cesspit• Scutari was built over a cesspit.• By leaking, like cesspits, they contaminated ground water.• A once charming rural idyll, Emmerdale had become a moral cesspit. |
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