ooze

　　英 [uːz] 美 [uːz]

　　v.（使）滲出；洩漏；流露 n. 軟泥；滲出物

　　TOEFL GRE

　　◉Usage Examples

　　(1) Black oil was oozing out of the engine.

　　(2) Blood was still oozing from the wound.

　　(3) The wound was oozing pus.

　　(4) She was simply oozing (with) charm.

　　(1) 發動機滲出了黑油。

　　(2) 傷口仍在滲血。

　　(3) 傷口在流膿.

　　(4) 她渾身散發着魅力。

　　◉Usage notes

　　The beauty of the word ooze is not only that its both a noun and a verb but also that the word sounds like what it means. The ooze on the bottom of the pond oozed between your toes.

　　When something oozes, it seeps out slowly in an unappetizing way. Cheese sauce oozes out of the container. Sludge oozes out of a treatment plant. Cream oozes out of a tube. Whatever is oozing is referred to as ooze. After an oil spill, a cleanup crew has to clean up the ooze that collects on the shore. It can also be used to describe someones behavior if its especially awful. A person who is really bad, for example, can be said to ooze evil.

　　◉Collins

　　1. [V-ERG 及物/不及物動詞]滲出；冒出；分泌出 When a thick or sticky liquid oozes from something or when something oozes it, the liquid flows slowly and in small quantities. [V] [V adv] [V n]

　　① He saw there was a big hole in the back of the mans head, blood was still oozing from it...

　　他看到這個男人後腦勺上有道大口子，血還在往外滲。

　　② The lava will just ooze gently out of the crater...

　　岩漿就會從火山口緩緩湧流出來。

　　③ The wounds may heal cleanly or they may ooze a clear liquid.

　　這些傷口可能會利索地愈合，也可能會分泌出一種透明的液體。

　　2. [VERB 動詞]凸顯，洋溢（特性或特點） If you say that someone or something oozes a quality or characteristic, or oozes with it, you mean that they show it very strongly. [V n] [V with n]

　　① Outwardly, Graham will ooze all his old confidence...

　　格雷厄姆表面上看起來會像過去一樣滿懷信心。

　　② The Elizabethan house oozes charm...

　　這幢伊麗莎白時期的房子散發着迷人的魅力。

　　③ Manchester United were by now oozing with confidence.

　　曼徹斯特聯隊現在充滿信心。

　　3. [N-UNCOUNT 不可數名詞]（尤指河、湖、海底的）軟泥，淤泥，泥漿 You can refer to any thick, sticky, liquid substance as ooze, especially the mud at the bottom of a river, lake, or the sea.

　　① ...a primeval ooze...

　　原始軟泥

　　② He grabbed into the ooze and came up clutching a large toad.

　　他把手伸進淤泥裡撈摸，結果抓上來一隻巨大的蟾蜍。

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