Lather

(noun.) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse).

(noun.) a workman who puts up laths.

(verb.) exude sweat or lather; 'this unfit horse lathers easily'.

(verb.) form a lather; 'The shaving cream lathered'.

编辑:塞格雷

• Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This cannot be removed by water alone, but if soap is used and a generous lather is applied to the skin, the dirt is cut and passes from the body into the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Then he left me there, a snowy statue of lather, and went away. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Miss Gage was finished with me and went out and the barber lathered my face and shaved. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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