Scorch
[skɔːtʃ] or [skɔrtʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a discoloration caused by heat.
(noun.) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues.
(noun.) a surface burn.
(verb.) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; 'The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun'.
(verb.) destroy completely by or as if by fire; 'The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes'; 'the invaders scorched the land'.
(verb.) become superficially burned; 'my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames'.
整理:威廉--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.
(v. t.) To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
(v. t.) To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
(v. i.) To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
(v. i.) To burn or be burnt.
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同义词及近义词：
v. a. Burn (slightly), singe, char, roast, parch.
黛博拉编辑
解释:
v.t. to burn slightly: to roast highly: to affect painfully with heat: to singe: to attack with virulence.—v.i. to be burned on the surface: to be dried up: (slang) to ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.—ns. Scorched′-car′pet -wing British geometrid moths; Scorch′er anything that scorches a very caustic rebuke criticism &c.: one who rides a bicycle furiously on a road; Scorch′ing.—p.adj. burning superficially: bitterly sarcastic scathing.—adv. Scorch′ingly.—n. Scorch′ingness.
班尼特手打
例句:
- I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- 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.
- It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- We saw water, then, but nowhere in all the waste around was there a foot of shade, and we were scorching to death. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Don't keep me long; the fire scorches me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
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