汉译英常见错误 | 地板上全是污物

[原] 地板上全是污物。
[误] The floor was covered with dirts.

[正] The floor was covered with dirt.
[注] 名词 dirt 作“污物”、“灰尘”解时,只用单数,如:Never cast dirt into the fountain of which you have sometime drunk. 饮水感源头,污物切勿投。(读)