Scum

(noun.) a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid.

(verb.) remove the scum from.

校对:迈克尔

• Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• So far from having high connections I have no connections at all, and I come of the scum of the earth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I want the room cleared of these two scum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The albumen of the serum coagulates and rises to the surface in a scum which entangles the impurities and bone black, leaving the syrup light in color. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• After filtering it is again boiled, and if any scum or impurities appear on the surface they are removed, when the juice is to be bottled, corked tightly, and should be left for one year. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It would not let that passion and loyalty be frittered away to drift like scum through the nation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Alcibiades knows all the scum of the Levant, and I have no doubt can get a few hundred scamps together. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The dirty scum, Piani said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• When soap is put into water containing one or both of these, it combines with the salts to form sticky insoluble scum. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We found him, when we went to search for him, face downward in a little green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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