“白”字是常常出现在人们口语中的。那次去学校的路上,耳边就飘过一句话来:“今天要是下雪,一早上我扫的地就是白扫了。”我平素好咬文嚼字,一时竟被这“白扫”的“白”字弄糊涂了。到了教室,翻开字典,嗬!真没想到“白”字居然有六种用法,而“白扫”中的“白”,显然是用来指“没成就的,没有效果的”了。扫了地地就干净了,这就是效果。下过雪又得扫了,这是另 The word “white” often appears in people’s spoken language. On the way to the school, I heard a word in my ear: “If it were snowing today, I would sweep the land in the morning.” I usually quibbled, and I was actually white by this “white sweep.” “Words confused. When I got to the classroom and opened the dictionary, I didn’t realize that there were actually six usages of the word ”white“, and the ”white“ in the ”white sweep“ was obviously used to mean ”no success, no effect." Sweepingly clean, this is the effect. It has been swept again under the snow. This is another