| 单词 | hot spring |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot spring hot spring n. a spring of naturally hot water, typically heated by subterranean volcanic activity. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > hot hot wella1387 hot spring1572 geyser1780 ngawha1843 jetter1870 1572 H. Hawks in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) III. 464 They have in divers places of the countrey many hote springs of water. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xl. 300 Yet like a dead calm in a hot spring, treasured up in store sad distempers against a back Winter. 1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland (ed. 2) 256 The hot springs in Iceland, several of which bear the name of geyser. 1898 Argosy May 268 Great columns of steam from the hot springs began to show strongly in the fast cooling air. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 72 This hot spring..owes its name to the beautifully tinted incrustation about its borders from deposit of mineral brought up dissolved in the crystal-clear hot water. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vi. 197 Iceland's hot springs and geothermal areas are so numerous that much of the country..heats its houses not by burning fossil fuels but just by tapping volcanic heat. < as lemmas |
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