Ferment
[fə'ment] or [fɚ'mɛnt]
解释:
(noun.) a substance capable of bringing about fermentation.
(verb.) cause to undergo fermentation; 'We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content'; 'The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats'.
(verb.) work up into agitation or excitement; 'Islam is fermenting Africa'.
(verb.) be in an agitated or excited state; 'The Middle East is fermenting'; 'Her mind ferments'.
柯蒂斯校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
(n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.
(n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
(n.) To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.
(v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.
(v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.
录入:希莉娅
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Yeast, leaven, harm.[2]. Agitation, commotion, tumult, state of excitement.
v. a. [1]. Set in motion by ferment.[2]. Excite, agitate, heat.
v. n. [1]. Work, be fermented.[2]. Be excited, be agitated.
雅克校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Seethe, concoct, brew, warm, chafe, effervesce, rankle, fester
ANT:Damp, cool, dissipate, subside, disperse, evaporate, heal
德怀特手打
解释:
n. what excites fermentation as yeast leaven: internal motion amongst the parts of a fluid: agitation: tumult.—v.t. Ferment′ to excite fermentation: to inflame.—v.i. to rise and swell by the action of fermentation: to work used of wine &c.: to be in excited action: to be stirred with anger.—n. Fermentabil′ity.—adj. Ferment′able capable of fermentation.—n. Fermentā′tion the act or process of fermenting: the change which takes place in liquids exposed to air: the kind of spontaneous decomposition which produces alcohol: restless action of the mind or feelings.—adj. Ferment′ative causing or consisting in fermentation.—n. Ferment′ativeness.—adj. Fermentes′cible capable of being fermented.
校对:马里恩
例句:
- Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Whether he first used yeast to make his bread light or to ferment his drink we do not know. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The advantages of this process are that the fruit juices will remain sweet indefinitely, will not ferment, and are free from all deleterious matter. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- This ferment in the political ideas of the Americans was started by English leaven. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Upon this the tiny yeast plants in the dough feed, and, as in the case of the wines, ferment the sugar, producing carbon dioxide and alcohol. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This buttermilk contributes somewhat to the flavor, but at the same time furnishes a ferment which ultimately spoils the butter by making it rancid. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Certain classes of diseases have also long been known as zymotic, or ferment diseases. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- In the commercial application of chemistry the work of Louis Pasteur in _fermenting_ and _brewing_ deserves special notice as making a great advance in this art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- At this juncture other schemes were fermenting in his brain; but the quadruplex engrossed him. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- During the first century there was an air of quiescence over the great plains, but population was accumulating and the tribes were fermenting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All agreed that it was the yeast plant that fermented or broke up the sugar element, and produced the alcohol. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- If they had no yeast, then they had no fermented drink. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Soap, salt, candles, leather, and fermented liquors, have, indeed, become a good deal dearer, chiefly from the taxes which have been laid upon them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Concerning just how the torulae broke up or fermented the sugar, great chemists have differed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- By a long series of experiments it was found that if substances which could be fermented were kept entirely closed to the outer air, no plant would form and no fermentation take place. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The employment of a brewer, and even that of a retailer of fermented liquors, are as necessary division's of labour as any other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Soon it was discovered that a pinch of this fermented dough acted as a starter on a fresh batch of dough. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Because the ferments of that fermentation feed more easily on the right hand than on the left hand molecules. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Might not the acidity, bitte rness, defective flavor, which were threatening the foreign sale of French wines, be owing to ferments? 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Whenever beer contains no ferments it is unalterable. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It was thus t hat he passed from the study of crystals to the study of ferments. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
校对:谢尔比