steam
n. 蒸汽, 精力 a. 蒸汽的 vi. 蒸发, 行驶, 发怒 vt. 蒸, 煮, 散发
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教材释义与例句
蒸汽；精力
the hot mist that water produces when it is boiled
蒸，散发；用蒸汽处理
if something steams, steam rises from it, especially because it is hot
蒸，冒水汽
蒸汽的
释义与例句
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The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
蒸汽
水蒸气
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The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.
Mist, fog.
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The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.
Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
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Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
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The act of cooking by steaming.
不可数Give the carrots a ten-minute steam.
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Internal energy for progress or motive power.
比喻 不可数After three weeks in bed he was finally able to sit up under his own steam.
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Pent-up anger.
比喻 不可数Dad had to go outside to blow off some steam.
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A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
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Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
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Any exhalation.
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Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
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To cook with steam.
清蒸
蒸
及物 烹饪The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
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To be cooked with steam.
比喻 不及物The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
I'm steaming in this coat.
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To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
及物to steam wood or cloth
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To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
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To produce or vent steam.
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To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
不及物Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
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To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
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To make angry.
比喻 及物It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
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To cover with condensed water vapor.
及物With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.
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To travel by means of steam power.
不及物We steamed around the Mediterranean.
The ship steamed out of the harbour.
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To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
比喻If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.
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To exhale.
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Old-fashioned; from before the digital age.
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From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
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