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Fume Smoke Steam Self Satisfaction French Vapor Latin Fumus

单词 fume
音标 [fju:m]
解释 v./n.愤怒;冒烟
红宝书 【英】 v./n. 愤怒(to show anger, annoyance, etc.);冒烟(to give off gas, smoke,or vapor)
【考】 preen : self-satisfaction / fume : anger(打扮是一种自我满足 的表现/愤怒是一种怒 的表现)
字源 fume (n.)
late 14c., from Old French fum "smoke, steam, vapor, breath," from Latin fumus "smoke, steam, fume" (source of Italian fumo, Spanish humo), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, vapor, smoke; to rise in a cloud, to fly about (like dust)" (cognates: Sanskrit dhumah, Old Church Slavonic dymu, Lithuanian dumai, Old Prussian dumis "smoke," Middle Irish dumacha "fog," Greek thymos "spirit, mind, soul").
fume (v.)
c.1400, "to fumigate," from Old French fumer, from Latin fumare "to smoke, steam," from fumus "smoke, steam, fume" (see fume (n.)). Figurative sense of "show anger" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Fumed; fumes; fuming.
不择手段背单词 v. /n. 愤怒; 有害、浓烈或难闻的气、汽或烟(引申为七窍生烟)
【类】preen: self-satisfaction = fume: anger打扮表达自我满足 = 愤怒表达愤怒
趣味全助记 【记】perfume 香水,香水发出的是好闻的气体,fume 指强烈的气,烟,气得冒烟

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