Kettle
['ket(ə)l] or ['kɛtl]
解释:
(noun.) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid.
(noun.) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
(noun.) the quantity a kettle will hold.
校对:马特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
辛迪校对
解释:
n. a vessel of metal for heating or boiling liquids: a cavity like a kettle in rock sand &c.: (Shak.) kettle-drum.—ns. Kett′le-drum a musical instrument now used chiefly in orchestras and in cavalry bands consisting of a hollow brass hemisphere with a parchment head sounded by soft-headed elastic drumsticks: a tea-party; Kett′le-drum′mer; Kett′le-hold′er a little mat &c. for holding a kettle when hot.—n.pl. Kett′le-pins skittle-pins.—A kettle of fish or A pretty kettle of fish a task of great difficulty an awkward mess—most probably in this sense connected with kiddle.
编辑:韦斯利
娱乐性解释：
To see kettles in your dream, denotes great and laborious work before you. To see a kettle of boiling water, your struggles will soon end and a change will come to you. To see a broken kettle, denotes failure after a mighty effort to work out a path to success. For a young woman to dream of handling dark kettles, foretells disappointment in love and marriage; but a light-colored kettle brings to her absolute freedom from care, and her husband will be handsome and worthy.
校对:苏西
例句:
- The tea-things were set upon the table, and the kettle was boiling on the hob. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I took off the kettle and blew out the lamp, for the water was spurting over the floor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Every housewife knows that if a kettle is filled with cold water to begin with, there will be an overflow as soon as the water becomes heated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The whitening is done by boiling the pins in a large copper kettle, which also contains layers of grained tin and a solution of argol or bitartrate of potash. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The common one is by applying extraneous heat, as under a tea kettle, in which case the evaporated vapor is hot by virtue of the heat absorbed from the fire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- This crust is due to the accumulation in the kettle of mineral matter which was in solution in the water, but which was left behind when the water evaporated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- For example, if 100 pints of ice water is heated in a kettle, the 100 pints will steadily expand until, at the boiling point, it will occupy as much space as 104 pints of ice water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The impurities remain behind in the kettle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A fire was burning under a pollard thorn a few paces off, over which three kettles hung in a row. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Tell 'em to put on all the kettles! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- You poor little earthenware pipkin, you want to swim down the stream along with the great copper kettles. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- My man's gone afield, and the little girl's seeing to the kettles. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The driving engine and shafting are compactly placed at one end or side of the room, with boilers and kettles conveniently adjacent. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- While it is being cooked in these large kettles sugar is added, and as soon as the gum is done it is placed in a kneading machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Only the pure leaf lard, which is supposed to be the choicest fat of the hog, is cooked in these kettles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The kettles revolve until a sufficient coating of the liquid sugar has adhered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- We know that water contains some mineral matter, because kettles in which water is boiled acquire in a short time a crust or coating on the inside. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
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