smolder
英 美 ['smold?]
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1. smolder / smoulder <====> smother.
2. => "burn and smoke without flame".
3. perhaps cognate with smell.
4. smoke => smolder, smother.
中文詞源
smolder 陰燃，悶燃，悶燒來自低地德語 smolen,窒息，阻燃，冒煙，來自 Proto-Germanic*smulijana,燃燒，冒煙，來自 PIE*smel,燃燒，冒煙，詞源同 smell.引申諸相關詞義。
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 1. The smolder became a blaze.
- 燜火變為烈焰。
來自辭典例句
- 2. The smolder will soon be a flame.
- 悶火很快變為烈焰.
來自辭典例句
- 3. It can smolder undetected for hours, then suddenly explode in fiery destruction.
- 也有可能好幾小時內不被發覺, 突然激烈的爆炸.
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