| 英语单词 | cauldron |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['kɔːldrən] 美 ['kɔːldrən] |
| 中文释义 | n.大锅;大汽锅 =caldron. |
| 英语例句 | (1) He ran over to a neighbour's house to borrow a cauldron. (2) Everyone crowded around a huge cauldron of boiling sap. (3) Soon, the sea is a bubbling cauldron of milky white foam and spray. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他匆匆到邻居家去借一口大锅。 (2) 大家都围挤在一个熬枫浆的大锅旁。 (3) 很快,那片海就像个充满乳白色泡泡和浪花的大气锅。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A cauldron is a big pot used over an open fire. You may picture the witches in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" hovering over a cauldron of "Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog" — yum! |
| vocabulary扩展 | The cauldron, while conjuring up images of — well, conjuring — actually came from the Latin root calidus, meaning "hot." We can see this root in other Latin-based languages, including the Spanish caliente and Italian caldo. In English, the word became cauldron — a creepy name for a very useful pot. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](小说及童话故事中巫师用以施符咒的)大锅 A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]动荡不安的局势;危险的局势 If you describe a situation as a cauldron, you mean that it is unstable or dangerous. [usu sing] [JOURNALISM 新闻]
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