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blot BrE /blɒt/ NAmE /blɑːt/► SEE ALLblot your copybooka blot on the landscape ●blot your ˈcopybook (old-fashioned, informal) spoil a previously good record 做出有损形象的事;玷污清白的记录◆He paid back the money he had stolen, but he had blotted his copybook and couldn’t hope for promotion. 他退还了所偷的钱,可是名声坏了,没有升迁的指望了。 ORIGIN A copybook was an exercise book with printed examples of good writing for children to copy. If you blotted it, you accidentally spoiled it by making a mark with ink on it. * copybook 原指儿童的练字本。blot 指把墨水溅到本子上。●a blot on the ˈlandscapea thing, especially an ugly building, that spoils the appearance of a place 影响景观的物体(尤指丑陋的建筑物);煞风景的东西◆That power station is rather a blot on the landscape. 那座发电厂相当影响景观。 |