| 单词 | scorch |
| 释义 | scorch I. transitive verb 1. < a shirt scorched by a careless laundress > < the bottom of the roast scorched by the cook > 2. a. < the long drought had scorched the leaves of the trees — Ellen Glasgow > b. < devils in Dante — tearing, mangling … scorching demons — Charles Lamb > < scorched the court … with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates — Time > 3. a. b. < scorching whatever other facilities there were of military value — Newsweek > < scorched by two wars in a generation — U.N. World > — used in the phrase scorched earth especially of property of possible use to an enemy < will resort to mass demolitions — even to a scorched earth policy — P.W.Thompson > < practiced the scorched earth policy by flooding mines, felling fruit trees — Paul Alpert > 4. 5. intransitive verb 1. a. < cotton and linens may scorch at high temperatures — Modern Home Laundering > b. of a rubber compound 2. < the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot — Nathaniel Hawthorne > 3. a. < scorching off on his bicycle — Anne Parrish > < scorching by on a motorcycle — Alan Moorehead > b. < a missile that could … scorch off toward a land target — M.G.Miles > < something scorches past your face — Fred Majdalany > Synonyms: see burn II. 1. 2. 3. < a play that is all scorch — Time > 4. III. dialect chiefly England |
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