Question

smolder vi.无火焰地闷烧；压抑n.闷烧 (1) 闷火很快变为烈焰。(2) 火仍然在废墟下面燃烧着。 Smolder is a word that is often used figuratively to describe situations or people's feelings. You might say tensions between the North and South were smoldering for years before the outbreak of the Civil War, or that the taking away tater tots was like oxygen to the students' smoldering dissatisfaction with food at school.

Accepted Answer

英 ['sməʊldə] 美 ['smoʊldər] (1) The smolder will soon be a flame.(2) The fires still smolder beneath the ruins. When a fire is barely burning, it's smoldering. Fires can smolder for days without anyone's knowing, then burst into a conflagration that gets the fire department sirens wailing all over town. 1  →see: smoulder；

英语单词	smolder
英美音标	英 ['sməʊldə] 美 ['smoʊldər]
中文释义	vi.无火焰地闷烧；压抑 n.闷烧
英语例句	(1) The smolder will soon be a flame. (2) The fires still smolder beneath the ruins.
中文例句	(1) 闷火很快变为烈焰。 (2) 火仍然在废墟下面燃烧着。
vocabulary简明	When a fire is barely burning, it's smoldering. Fires can smolder for days without anyone's knowing, then burst into a conflagration that gets the fire department sirens wailing all over town.
vocabulary扩展	Smolder is a word that is often used figuratively to describe situations or people's feelings. You might say tensions between the North and South were smoldering for years before the outbreak of the Civil War, or that the taking away tater tots was like oxygen to the students' smoldering dissatisfaction with food at school.
柯林斯解释	1 →see: smoulder ；

Smolder Smoldering Fires 英 Sməʊldə] 美 Smoʊldər Vi.无火焰地闷烧；压抑 N.闷烧