Smoulder
['sməʊldə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; 'the smoulder suddenly became a blaze'.
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解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
(n.) Smoke; smother.
(v. i.) See Smolder.
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to burn slowly or without vent.—adjs. Smoul′dring Smoul′dry.
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- On the bright hill-sides was a subdued smoulder of gorse. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The spark may smoulder and go out, or it may glow and expand, but see! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But it would seem as easy to wake a bundle of old clothes with a spirituous heat smouldering in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The eternal cigarette smouldered in his mouth. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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