• n. 銹；生銹；[植保] 銹病
• vt. 使生銹；腐蝕
• vi. 生銹；成鐵銹色；變遲鈍
• n. (Rust)人名；(英)拉斯特；(德、捷、瑞典)魯斯特；(法)呂斯特

來自古英語 rust,銹，銹蝕，來自 PIE*reudh,紅色的，來自 PIE*reudh,紅色的，詞源同 red,russet.

rust

rust: [OE] Etymologically, rust means ‘reddened’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *reudh- ‘red’ (source also of English red). This produced a prehistoric Germanic noun which has evolved into German and Swedish rost, Dutch roest, and English and Danish rust.
=> red

rust (v.)

early 13c., from rust (n.). Transitive sense "cause to rust" is from 1590s. Related: Rusted; rusting.

rust (n.)

"red oxide of iron," Old English rust "rust; moral canker," related to rudu "redness," from Proto-Germanic *rusta- (cognates: Frisian rust, Old High German and German rost, Middle Dutch ro(e)st), from PIE *reudh-s-to- (cognates: Lithuanian rustas "brownish," rudeti "to rust;" Latin robigo, Old Church Slavonic ruzda "rust"), from root *reudh- "red" (see red (adj.1)).

As a plant disease, attested from mid-14c. Rust Belt "decayed urban industrial areas of mid-central U.S." (1984) was popularized, if not coined, by Walter Mondale's presidential campaign.

1. Rust and flaking paint mean the metalwork is in poor condition.

生銹和掉漆說明金屬配件損毀嚴重。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Ray painted below the waterline with a special anti-rust paint.

雷用專門的防銹涂料涂船的吃水線以下的部位。

來自柯林斯例句

3. pipes covered with rust

生了銹的管子

來自《權威詞典》

4. It is better to wear out than rust out.

與其懶死,不如累死.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. As rust is to iron, so is laziness to man.

懶惰對于人好比鐵生了銹.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》