thaw

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n. 融解, 融化, 解冻时期 vt. 使融解, 使缓和 vi. 融化, 解冻

发音

UK /θɔː/
US /θɔ/
/θɑ/
AU /θoː/

词形变化

thaws 复数 thaws thawed thaweth thawing thawn thaws 三单 thawing 现在分词 thawed 过去式 thawed 过去分词 thawn 过去式 thawn 过去分词 chiefly poetic 过去分词

别名

thow

教材释义与例句

名词

解冻；融雪

动词

使融解；使变得不拘束

动词

融解；变暖和

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost

    解冻

    融化

  2. 2.

    a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen

  3. 3.

    A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.

    比喻
v.
  1. 1.

    To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.

    解冻

    渐融

    融化

    不及物

    the ice thaws

  2. 2.

    To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.

    不及物

    It's beginning to thaw.

  3. 3.

    To grow gentle or genial.

    比喻 不及物

    Her anger has thawed.

    The atmosphere at the meeting never really thawed.

  4. 4.

    To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

melt warming melting thawing

上位词 9

weather conditions warming heating relaxation loosening phase transition physical change slackening
动词

同义词 5

melt dissolve unfreeze dethaw unthaw

上位词 3

flux liquefy liquify

下位词 3

defrost de-ice deliquesce

相关短语

thaw wind thaw out thaw winds silver thaw

词源

From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þawian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German Low German deien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”).

来源：wiktionary