Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense tars, present participle tarring, past tense, past participle tarred
1N-UNCOUNT 柏油;沥青Tar is a thick black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads. 柏油;沥青
The oil has hardened to tar.
油已经硬化成柏油了。
They drove across the river to New Hampshire on a hot tar road.
他们沿着一条滚烫的柏油路开过了河,来到新罕布什尔州。
2N-UNCOUNT (烟草中的)焦油Tar is one of the poisonous substances contained in tobacco. (烟草中的)焦油
3PHRASE 被当作一丘之貉;被当成一路货色 If some people in a group behave badly and if people then wrongly think that all of the group is equally bad, you can say that the whole group is tarred with the same brush . 被当作一丘之貉;被当成一路货色
I am a football supporter and I have to often explain that I'm not one of the hooligan sort because we'll all get tarred with the same brush when there's trouble.