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smolder是什么意思

smolder

  • vi. 闷烧;郁积
  • n. 阴燃;闷烧

smolder 助记提示


1. smolder / smoulder smother.
2. => "burn and smoke without flame".
3. perhaps cognate with smell.
4. smoke => smolder, smother.

smolder 中文词源


smolder 阴燃,闷燃,闷烧

来自低地德语 smolen,窒息,阻燃,冒烟,来自 Proto-Germanic*smulijana,燃烧,冒烟,来自 PIE*smel,燃烧,冒烟,词源同 smell.引申诸相关词义。

smolder 英文词源


smolder (v.)
c. 1300 (implied in smoldering), "to smother, suffocate," related to Middle Dutch smolen, Low German smelen, Flemish smoel "hot," from Proto-Germanic *smel-, *smul-. The intransitive meaning "burn and smoke without flame" is first recorded 1520s, fell from use 17c. (though smoldering persisted in poetry) and was revived 19c. Figurative sense "exist in a suppressed state; burn inwardly" is from 1810. Related: Smouldered; smolderingly. Middle English also had a noun smolder meaning "smoky vapor, a stifling smoke."

smolder 双语例句


1. The smolder became a blaze.
焖火变为烈焰。

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2. The smolder will soon be a flame.
闷火很快变为烈焰.

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3. It can smolder undetected for hours, then suddenly explode in fiery destruction.
也有可能好几小时内不被发觉, 突然激烈的爆炸.

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