| 单词 | smoulder |
| 释义 | smoulder (smoʊldəʳ ) Word forms: smoulders , smouldering , smouldered regional note: in AM, use smolder 1. verb If something smoulders, it burns slowly, producing smoke but not flames. A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today. [VERB] Whole blocks had been turned into smouldering rubble. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: smoke, burn slowly 2. verb If a feeling such as anger or hatred smoulders inside you, you continue to feel it but do not show it. Baxter smouldered as he drove home for lunch. [VERB] That's a lot of people smouldering with resentment. [VERB] Synonyms: seethe, rage, fume, burn 3. verb If you say that someone smoulders, you mean that they are sexually attractive, usually in a mysterious or very intense way. The actress seems to smoulder with sexuality. [VERB + with] His darkly smouldering eyes never left her face. [VERB-ing] Collocations: smouldering fire It would be only four years before the broadcasting of radio programmes swept across America like a smouldering fire that had suddenly burst into flame. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003) But an electrical fault started a smouldering fire. The Sun (2009) It takes only a small spark to relight a smouldering fire. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Translations: Chinese: 冒烟 Japanese: くすぶる |
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