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VERB
揉;按摩;搓
If you rub a part of your body, you move your hand or fingers backwards and forwards over it while pressing firmly.
例句
He rubbed his arms and stiff legs...
他按摩著自己的胳膊和僵硬的雙腿。
'I fell in a ditch', he said, rubbing at a scrape on his hand.
“我掉進溝里了”，他一邊說著，一邊揉著手上的擦傷。
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VERB
摩擦;蹭
If you rub against a surface or rub a part of your body against a surface, you move it backwards and forwards while pressing it against the surface.
例句
A cat was rubbing against my leg...
一只貓在我腿上蹭來蹭去。
He kept rubbing his leg against mine.
他不停地用腿蹭我的腿。
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VERB
（用布）擦干，擦凈，擦拭
If you rub an object or a surface, you move a cloth backward and forward over it in order to clean or dry it.
例句
She took off her glasses and rubbed them hard...
她摘下眼鏡使勁擦著。
He rubbed and rubbed but couldn't seem to get clean.
他擦了又擦，可就是擦不干凈。
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VERB
涂抹;搽;擦去
If you rub a substance into a surface or rub something such as dirt from a surface, you spread it over the surface or remove it from the surface using your hand or something such as a cloth.
例句
He rubbed oil into my back...
他往我的背上抹油
I pretended to rub a fleck of grit from one eye.
我假裝拭去一只眼睛里的沙粒。
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V-ERG
相互摩擦;揉搓
If you rub two things together or if they rub together, they move backwards and forwards, pressing against each other.
例句
He rubbed his hands together a few times.
他搓了幾下手。
...the 650-mile rift that separates the Pacific and North American geological plates as they rub together.
太平洋和北美洲地質板塊相互摩擦時產生的一條長達650英里的裂縫
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VERB
擦傷;磨痛
If something you are wearing or holding rubs, it makes you sore because it keeps moving backwards and forwards against your skin.
例句
Smear cream on to your baby's skin at the edges of the plaster to prevent it from rubbing.
在寶寶貼膏藥的皮膚邊緣涂上護膚霜，以防止膏藥擦傷皮膚。
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N-SING
困難;難處;障礙
Rub is used in expressions such as there's the rub and the rub is when you are mentioning a difficulty that makes something hard or impossible to achieve.
例句
'What do you want to write about?'. And there was the rub, because I didn't yet know.
“你想寫什么？”難就難在這兒，因為我還不知道寫什么。
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N-COUNT
按摩
A massage can be referred to as a rub .
例句
She sometimes asks if I want a back rub.
她有時會問我想不想做個背部按摩。
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N-COUNT
按摩膏;面膜
A rub is a substance that you massage into your skin.
例句
...a fresh cucumber rub for your whole face.
用新鮮黃瓜給整張臉做的面膜
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PHRASE
（尤用于美國英語）和（名人）接觸，和（名人）交往
If you rub shoulders with famous people, you meet them and talk to them. You can also say that you rub elbows with someone, especially in American English.
例句
He regularly rubbed shoulders with the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Kylie Minogue.
他經常與伊麗莎白·泰勒和凱莉·米洛這樣的人接觸。
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PHRASE
無意中冒犯;無意中惹惱
If you rub someone up the wrong way in British English, or rub someone the wrong way in American English, you offend or annoy them without intending to.
例句
What are you going to get out of him if you rub him up the wrong way?
你要是不小心把他惹毛了，你有什么好處？