
smolder基本信息
读法:英 美 ["smoldɚ]
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英英释义
Noun:
中英词源
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 (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."
词态变化
复数 smolders;
第三人称单数 smolders;
过去式 smoldered;
过去分词 smoldered;
现在分词 smoldering;
权威造句
- 1. The smolder became a blaze.
- 焖火变为烈焰。
来自辞典例句
- 2. The smolder will soon be a flame.
- 闷火很快变为烈焰.
来自辞典例句
- 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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记忆方法
1. smolder / smoulder <====> smother.
2. => "burn and smoke without flame".
3. perhaps cognate with smell.
4. smoke => smolder, smother.
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