washing soda

基本解释

Chapped: washing soda.
是洗东西时使碱使的吧。
For the clothes and bedclothes to come out so clean, they had to be scrubbed, thoroughly in a washtub, rinsed with washing soda , soaked, boiled in an enormous pot, starched, then ironed.
为了洗得干净，衣服和床上用品要先在盆里使劲搓洗，接着用肥皂擦洗，然后在一只大锅里浸泡，煮，上浆，接着熨烫。
Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with washing soda,
我若用雪水洗身,用碱洁净我的手
Washing machines take the drudgery out of laundry.
洗衣机把洗衣工作带出了洗衣房。
He gave me a bottle of orange soda.
他递给我一瓶桔子汽水。

the crystalline decahydrate of sodium carbonate, esp when used as a cleansing agent