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bog

noun
🔊/bɒɡ/
🔊/bɑːɡ/
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  1. [countable, uncountable] (an area of) wet soft ground, formed of decayed (= destroyed by natural processes) plants沼泽（地区）
    • Like oil, gas and coal fields, peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.像石油，天然气和煤炭领域一样，泥炭沼泽充当着巨大的碳库。
    see also boggy
    Extra Examples
    • I found myself walking through a bog.我发现自己正走过一片沼泽。
    • The more she struggled the deeper she sank into the bog.她越挣扎，在沼泽里就陷得越深。
    • There was an area of bog behind the house.房子后面有一片沼泽地。
    • We collected several interesting specimens from the bog.我们从那个沼泽地采集了几种有趣的标本。
    Topics Geographyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • vast
    • stagnant
    • peat
    • …
    verb + bog
    • sink into
    preposition
    • in a/​the bog
    • through a/​the bog
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  2. [countable] (British English, slang) a toilet厕所；浴室
    • Have you got any bog roll (= toilet paper)?你带卫生纸了吗？🔊🔊
    • Sam was on the bog when I arrived.我到时山姆在沼泽里。
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft’.

bog

verb
🔊/bɒɡ/
🔊/bɑːɡ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bog
🔊/bɒɡ/
🔊/bɑːɡ/
he / she / it bogs
🔊/bɒɡz/
🔊/bɑːɡz/
past simple bogged
🔊/bɒɡd/
🔊/bɑːɡd/
past participle bogged
🔊/bɒɡd/
🔊/bɑːɡd/
-ing form bogging
🔊/ˈbɒɡɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbɑːɡɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft’.