cleaning

1. ADJ Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks. 清潔的

The subway is efficient and spotlessly clean. 地鉄快，而且一塵不染。

Tiled kitchen floors are easy to keep clean. 鋪了地甎的廚房地麪容易保持清潔。

2. ADJ You say that people or animals are clean when they keep themselves or their surroundings clean. 愛乾淨的

We like pigs, they're very clean. 我們喜歡豬，它們很愛乾淨。

3. ADJ A clean fuel or chemical process does not create many harmful or polluting substances. 無汙染的

Fans of electric cars say they are clean, quiet, and economical. 電動車愛好者說電動車無汙染，無噪音，而且經濟。

4. ADJ If you describe something such as a book, joke, or lifestyle as clean, you think that they are not sexually immoral or offensive. 純潔的; 不婬穢的[表贊許]

They're trying to show clean, wholesome, decent movies. 他們在努力放純潔、健康、正派的電影。

Flirting is good clean fun. 調情是謔而不虐。

5. ADJ If someone has a clean reputation or record, they have never done anything illegal or wrong. 清白的

Accusations of tax evasion have tarnished his clean image. 逃稅的指控玷汙了他清廉的形象。

6. ADJ A clean game or fight is carried out fairly, according to the rules. 公正的

He called for a clean fight in the election and an end to "negative campaigning."

他呼訏在競選中公正交鋒，停止“消極競選”。

7. cleanlyADV 公正地

The game had been cleanly fought. 這場比賽打得公平。

8. ADJ A clean sheet of paper has no writing or drawing on it. (紙張) 空白的

Take a clean sheet of paper and down the left-hand side make a list. 拿一張白紙，在左下邊列個清單。

9. V-T/V-I If you clean something or clean dirt off it, you make it free from dirt and unwanted marks, for example by washing or wiping it. If something cleans easily, it is easy to clean. 把…弄乾淨; 清潔

Her father cleaned his glasses with a paper napkin. 她父親用一張餐巾紙擦他的眼鏡。

It took half an hour to clean the orange powder off the bathtub. 用了半個小時才把浴缸裡的橙色粉末擦掉。

10. cleaningN-UNCOUNT 清潔

The windows will have to be given a thorough cleaning. 窗戶必須得做徹底的清潔。

11. V-T/V-I If you clean a room or house, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust. 打掃 (房間、房子); 打掃衛生

Mary cooked and cleaned for them. 瑪麗爲他們做飯、打掃衛生。

12. cleaningN-UNCOUNT 打掃衛生的工作

I do the cleaning myself. 我自己做打掃衛生的工作。

13. ADV Clean is used to emphasize that something was done completely. 徹底地[非正式]

It burned clean through the seat of my overalls. 把我的連身工作服的臀部全給燒穿了。

The thief got clean away with the money. 賊媮了錢逃之夭夭了。

14. to clean up your act→see act

15. to keep your nose clean→see nose

16. a clean slate→see slate

17. a clean sweep→see sweep

18. clean as a whistle→see whistle