英语单词 | fume |
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英美音标 | [fju:m] |
中文释义 | n.(浓烈或难闻的)烟,气体,一阵愤怒(或不安) v.用烟熏,冒烟,发怒 |
vocab简明 | To fume is to feel or express great anger. You would fume if your teacher accused you of cheating when you didn't. |
vocab扩展 | As a verb, fume is usually used figuratively to mean "to feel very angry," whereas as a noun, it is used more as its Latin root fumus "smoke, steam, vapor." A strong-smelling gas, smoke or vapor is also called a fume. In cartoons, when a character is fuming, it is often drawn with fumes coming out of its ears. You may fume about the inconsiderate person who sits in the car with the engine running, spewing clouds of exhaust fumes. |
真题原句 | Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it‘s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-PLURAL 复数名词](难闻且常为有害的)烟,气体 Fumes are the unpleasant and often unhealthy smoke and gases that are produced by fires or by things such as chemicals, fuel, or cooking.
2 [VERB 动词]发怒;生气 If you fume over something, you express annoyance and anger about it. [V [V with quote] [V]
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来源 | 2005.2 |
Tags: 单词::2005
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