frost

B1 CET-4 高中 FREQ #6851 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 霜, 冰冻, 冷漠 vt. 覆着霜, 冻结, 结霜 vi. 受冻, 起霜

发音

UK /fɹɒst/
US /fɹɔst/
/fɹɑst/

词形变化

frosts 复数 frosts frosted frosting frosts 三单 frosting 现在分词 frosted 过去式 frosted 过去分词

别名

froste

教材释义与例句

名词

霜；冰冻，严寒；冷淡

very cold weather, when water freezes

动词

结霜于；冻坏

动词

结霜；受冻

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.

    霜

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

    严寒

    冰冻

    寒冷

    霜

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

    可数 比喻 不可数

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries Up to that time the girl had never really done her hair, and she regarded boots merely as things to protect the feet. Suddenly it dawned on her that she was considered plain and that she diffused an atmosphere of intellectual frost.

  4. 4.

    The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  5. 5.

    A shade of white, like that of frost.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    A disappointment; a cheat.

    可数 过时 俚语 不可数
  7. 7.

    A kind of light diffuser.

    可数 不可数 媒体
v. C1
  1. 1.

    To cover with frost.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To become covered with frost.

    结霜

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To anger or annoy.

    惹毛

    非正式 及物

    I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.

  5. 5.

    To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

    及物
  6. 6.

    To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

freeze icing hoar hoarfrost rime

上位词 4

ice freeze freezing water ice
动词

同义词 1

ice

上位词 2

cover damage

相关短语

frost up frost heave 冻胀, 冰冻隆胀 frost quake frost quakes frost smoke frost lamp frost heaving 冰冻隆胀; 霜拔; 冻拔; 冻胀 frost line frost grape frost grapes frost lamps frost heavings frost lines frost heaves frost burn

词源

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

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