Blast
[blɑːst] or [blæst]
解释:
(noun.) a very long fly ball.
(noun.) an explosion (as of dynamite).
(verb.) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.
(verb.) shatter as if by explosion.
(verb.) fire a shot; 'the gunman blasted away'.
(verb.) use explosives on; 'The enemy has been shelling us all day'.
(verb.) make with or as if with an explosion; 'blast a tunnel through the Alps'.
(verb.) create by using explosives; 'blast a passage through the mountain'.
(verb.) apply a draft or strong wind to to; 'the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us'.
(verb.) make a strident sound; 'She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone'.
校对:威拉德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A violent gust of wind.
(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.
(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
(v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
(v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
录入:莫伊拉
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Gust, squall, sudden breeze.[2]. Peal, blare, clang.[3]. Explosion, outbreak, burst, discharge.[4]. Blight, pestilential influence.
v. a. [1]. Blight, kill, destroy, ruin, annihilate, wither, shrivel.[2]. Rend by explosion.
整理:莱昂内尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Blight, shrivel, destroy, wither
ANT:Restore, expand, swell
SYN:Breeze, efflation, explosion, blight, burst, blaze, frustration, destruction,squall, gale, tempest, hurricane, affiliation
ANT:Zephyr, gentle_breeze, neutralization
格斯编辑
解释:
n. a blowing or gust of wind: a forcible stream of air: sound of a wind instrument; an explosion of gunpowder: anything pernicious.—v.t. to strike with some pernicious influence to blight: to affect with sudden violence or calamity: to rend asunder with gunpowder.—adj. Blast′ed blighted: cursed damned.—ns. Blast′-fur′nace a smelting furnace into which hot air is blown; Blast′-hole a hole in the bottom of a pump through which water enters; Blast′ing the separating of masses of stone by means of an explosive substance; Blast′ing-gel′atine a powerful explosive made of gun-cotton and nitro-glycerine; Blast′ment withering or shrivelling up caused by blasting; Blast′-pipe a pipe in a steam-engine to convey the waste-steam up the chimney.
校对:佩德罗
例句:
- A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose, replied De Bracy, coolly; probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Pneumatic Transmission: Dodge's Air Blast Conveyor. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This causes a sound of very great power, which the trumpet collects and compresses, and the blast goes out as a sort of sound beam in the direction required. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The sand after it strikes is carried off by a blast to some receptacle, from which it is returned to its former place for further use. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The object now is subjected to the blast, and as the sand will not penetrate a softened material sufficient to abrade a surface beneath, the exposed portions alone will be cut away. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Thus are we left, said Adrian, two melancholy blasted trees, where once a forest waved. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But no admonition would help, till that the wind of an hacquebute blasted his shoulder, and then ceased he from further pursuit in fury. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Do you not behold the clouds open, and destruction lurid and dire pour down on the blasted earth? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- His grip has been upon me these twenty years, and he has blasted my life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- What is that electricity they speak of, whose changes make us well or ill, whose lack or excess blasts, whose even balance revives? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The gentlest summer breezes and the fiercest blasts of winter are produced by the unequal heating of air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The sharp blasts of the chuffing engine broke with more and more force on her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It was a very cold day, with cutting blasts of wind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Our ice boats cut and break the ice of the river, and through the water beneath our boats daily ply their way to and fro, independent of winter and its blighting blasts. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- For blasting purposes also it presents the promise of possible utilization. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- This mode of drilling also effected a revolution in the art of blasting. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In 1839 Colonel Pasley blew up the wreck of the Royal George by electro-blasting. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Here roared no utterance of Rome's thunders, no blasting of the breath of her displeasure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Having adjusted such spectacles the Commission proceeded to look at this curse which is more blasting than any plague or epidemic, at an evil which spells only ruin to the race. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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