单词 | long-simmering |
释义 | > as lemmaslong-simmering long-simmering adj. ΚΠ 1852 Sc. Temperance Rev. May 208/2 The long simmering mass of ignorance may be exposed to the genial sunshine of a kindly intelligence. 1891 National Rev. Mar. 66 The long-engendered, long-simmering lava-floods from the rent conduits of a volcano. 1926 W. E. Woodward G. Washington iii. 30 The war originated in a flare-up of a long simmering dispute which England and Spain had carried on for a generation. 1963 C. Carpenter Hist. Amer. Schoolbks. xi. 159 When..some of the better-known philologists voiced approvals of the new spelling in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century they were stirring a long-simmering porridge. 2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 12 The long-simmering single pot dishes..reflected the survival-oriented frontier traditions of the Acadians. < as lemmas |
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