英语词汇“pyrophile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pyrophile n.

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)fʌɪl/

U.S.

/ˈpaɪrəˌfaɪl/

(a) [after French pyrophile (A. Taquin 1902, in Revue scientifique 18 299/2)] a person who accepts the conventional theory that volcanic eruptions involve the natural heat of the interior of the earth, not (as in A. Taquin's theory) incoming solar energy; (b) = pyromaniac n.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1902 Nature 27 Nov. 91/2 This advice M. Tarquin [sic] holds to have been based on classical but false hypotheses respecting the cause of volcanic activity... The theory of the ‘pyrophiles’ is dangerous to humanity.

1950 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 40 724 The action revolves about the pyrophile who relives the scene of each of his fires.

1955 C. Fadiman Party of One 428 I asked my dignified associates to a fireworks party... Within five minutes a dozen middle-aged or elderly scholars had turned into lunatic pyrophiles.

2000 C. Tyerman Hist. Harrow School x. 230 Pyrophile that he was, the conflagration had afforded him great excitement.

单词	pyrophile
释义	> as lemmas pyrophile pyrophile n. Brit. /ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)fʌɪl/ , U.S. /ˈpaɪrəˌfaɪl/ (a) [after French pyrophile (A. Taquin 1902, in Revue scientifique 18 299/2)] a person who accepts the conventional theory that volcanic eruptions involve the natural heat of the interior of the earth, not (as in A. Taquin's theory) incoming solar energy; (b) = pyromaniac n.Sense (a) apparently represents an isolated use. ΚΠ 1902 Nature 27 Nov. 91/2 This advice M. Tarquin [sic] holds to have been based on classical but false hypotheses respecting the cause of volcanic activity... The theory of the ‘pyrophiles’ is dangerous to humanity. 1950 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 40 724 The action revolves about the pyrophile who relives the scene of each of his fires. 1955 C. Fadiman Party of One 428 I asked my dignified associates to a fireworks party... Within five minutes a dozen middle-aged or elderly scholars had turned into lunatic pyrophiles. 2000 C. Tyerman Hist. Harrow School x. 230 Pyrophile that he was, the conflagration had afforded him great excitement. extracted from pyro-comb. form < as lemmas
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