scrub

既定 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/skɹʌb/

名詞

アメリカ英語 廃用 俗語

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow. / One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks. / A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant

日本語の意味

質素に生活し苦労して働く人、または卑劣な人物 / 無能で簡単な作業もこなせない人 / 下草地帯や低木林、特定の植物にちなんだジャングル

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Despite the town's wealth, the scrub worked from sunrise to sunset and scraped by on a single thin bowl of porridge.

町がどれほど裕福でも、その苦役に耐える人は夜明けから日没まで働き、薄い粥一杯でかろうじて暮らしていた。

詳細

意味（1）

One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.

A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind.

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意味（2）

One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.

What a scrub! Instead of washing the dishes she put the used food on her face!

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意味（3）

A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant

oak scrub

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意味（4）

(US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc. Often used to refer to male animals unsuited for breeding.

意味（5）

Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.

意味（6）

One not on the first team of players; a substitute.

意味（7）

(obsolete, slang) Informal attire or dress code; morning dress

The third, which was as homely as its name, and which she reserved for scouring the country and such like rough usage in quite private rural life, was her Scrub.

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scrubs （ plural ）