Leaven
['lev(ə)n] or ['lɛvən]
解释:
(noun.) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; 'his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor'.
(noun.) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid.
班尼特手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
(n.) Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
(v. t.) To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
(v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
录入:斯蒂芬妮
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Yeast, ferment, barm, emptyings, fermenting substance.[2]. Pervading influence.
v. a. [1]. Produce or excite fermentation in.[2]. Imbue, infect, vitiate, taint.
编辑:玛杰里
解释:
n. the ferment which makes dough rise in a spongy form: anything that makes a general change whether good or bad.—v.t. to raise with leaven: to taint.—n. Leav′ening.—adj. Leav′enous containing leaven.
编辑:维姬
例句:
- 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.
- Bessie Leaven had said I was quite a lady; and she spoke truth--I was a lady. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- This use of leaven for raising bread has been practiced for ages. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- When our remote ancestors saved a pinch of dough as leaven for the next baking, they were actually cultivating yeast, although they did not know it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- You're not grown so very tall, Miss Jane, nor so very stout, continued Mrs. Leaven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Yes; nearly five years since to Robert Leaven, the coachman; and I've a little girl besides Bobby there, that I've christened Jane. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The whole loaf was leavened. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- But there is one great objection to the use of soda alone as a leavening agent. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Man's knowledge of chemicals and their effect on each other has enabled him to overcome this difficulty and, at the same time, to retain the leavening effect of the baking soda. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
录入:雷蒙