washing soda

基本解释

Chapped: washing soda.
是洗東西時使堿使的吧。
For the clothes and bedclothes to come out so clean, they had to be scrubbed, thoroughly in a washtub, rinsed with washing soda , soaked, boiled in an enormous pot, starched, then ironed.
爲了洗得乾淨，衣服和牀上用品要先在盆裡使勁搓洗，接著用肥皂擦洗，然後在一衹大鍋裡浸泡，煮，上漿，接著熨燙。
Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda,
我若用雪水洗身,用堿潔淨我的手
Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
洗衣機把洗衣工作帶出了洗衣房。
He gave me a bottle of orange soda.
他遞給我一瓶桔子汽水。

the crystalline decahydrate of sodium carbonate, esp when used as a cleansing agent