vapour
英 ['ve?p?]
美['vep?]
- n. 蒸氣（等于vapor）；水蒸氣
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詞態(tài)變化
復數:?vapours;
英文詞源
- vapour
- vapour: [14] Latin vapor meant ‘steam, heat’. English acquired it via Old French vapour. The now archaic use of the plural, vapours, for a ‘fit of fainting, hysteria, etc’, which dates from the 17th century, was inspired by the notion that exhalations from the stomach and other internal organs affected the brain. Vapid [17] comes from Latin vapidus ‘insipid’, which may have been related to vapor.
=> vapid - vapour (n.)
- chiefly British English spelling of vapor; see -or.
雙語例句
- 1. A cloud is a mass of vapour in the sky.
- 云是天空中的水汽團塊.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
- 云是由大氣中的水蒸氣凝結成的.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. Clouds are formations of condensed water vapour.
- 云是由凝聚的水蒸氣構成的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. If it were not for the vapour in the air, there would be no dew.
- 如果空氣中沒有水氣, 就沒有露水.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 5. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.
- 日記會變灰,他會被蒸發(fā).
來自英漢文學