brimstone

C2 FREQ #26147

n. 硫磺 [化] 硫黄

发音

UK /ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/
US /ˈbɹɪmstoʊn/
/ˈbɹɪmstən/

词形变化

brimstones 复数 brimstones

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

    可数 不可数 宗教
  2. 2.

    Sulfur.

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  3. 3.

    A whore.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  4. 4.

    Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

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  5. 5.

    The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

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  6. 6.

    Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

s sulfur sulphur

相关短语

brimstone flower brimstone match brimstone flowers brimstone matches fire and brimstone a. 威胁报复的, 恫吓的 rain fire and brimstone rains fire and brimstone raining fire and brimstone rained fire and brimstone

词源

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian + stone, or burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.

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