dirt: [13] Dirt was originally drit, and meant ‘excrement’ (it was borrowed from Old Norse drit, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *drit- that also produced Dutch dreet ‘excrement’). The toned-down sense ‘soiling substance’ is of equal antiquity with ‘excrement’ in English, and the modern English form dirt first appeared in the 15th century, by a process known as metathesis in which two sounds are reversed.
dirt (n.)
15c. metathesis of Middle English drit, drytt "mud, dirt, dung" (c. 1300), from Old Norse drit, cognate with Old English dritan "to void excrement," from Proto-Germanic *dritan (cognates: Dutch drijten, Old High German trizan). Used abusively of persons from c. 1300. Meaning "gossip" first attested 1926 (in Hemingway); dirt bike is 1960s. Dirt-cheap is from 1821. Dirt road attested by 1852.
例文
1. He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him，pushing him into the dirt .
彼はパソリーニが追いかけて殴り、泥の中に押し倒したと主張した。
2.A group of riders came into view on the dirt road.
自転車に乗っている人たちがその土の道に現れた。
3.They 're always selling off stuff like that dirt cheap.
彼らはいつも非常に安い価格でそのようなものを処理しています。
4.Most of the dirt was on the outside of the tinted glass.
ほこりの大部分は着色ガラスの外側にある。
5.The rooster chased me across the dirt floor of the barn.