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scourvt.
1. rub hard. rub down. wear猛擦，擦破，磨損。
△2H.IV.1.2.249 (218):“I were better to be eaten to deathwith a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpet-ual motion.”我寧可閑得生銹而死，也比在永遠活動之中被磨損得一無所有要好得多。
2.remove by rubbing,purge,cleanse,wash away擦掉，清洗，洗凈，沖掉。
△1H.IV.3.2.137:“Which washedaway shall scour my shame with it.”把它洗去，我的恥辱也就與之一同洗掉了。
△H.V.1.1.33: “Never came re-formation in a flood / With such a heady currance, scouring faults；”也從來沒有見過這樣的改過自新，像一股猛烈的激流奔涌而來，把種種罪過蕩滌 一空。
△2H.VI.3.2.198:“But here's a vengeful sword,rusted with ease,/That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart”. 但是這里倒有一把復仇之劍，由于缺乏使用而生銹了，正要在他那惡毒的心里擦拭干凈。
3. sweep away,remove掃除，消除。
△Mac.5.3.55:“What rhubarb,senna,or what purgative drug,/Would scour these English hence?”什么大黃、桂皮，什么瀉藥，能夠排除掉這些英國人？
4. ?clean out,clean a pistol barrel with a scouring-rod and a wad or sponge把…打掃干凈，用通條加海綿或其他填料把（槍膛）清掃干凈。
?beat,punish severely打擊，嚴厲懲罰。
△H.V.2.1.59 (56):“If you grow foul withme,Pistol. I will scour you with my rapier,as I may.in fair terms.”如果你敢對我出口帶臟字兒，皮司多，我就拿我這把劍當通條，把你打掃干凈。 scour[?skau?]v.擦亮，擦凈 n.擦，沖刷 |