| 单词 | natural heat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnatural heat a. The normal high temperature of the body in warm-blooded animals; the warmth characteristic of a living body ( natural heat, vital heat). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > temperature and regulation > [noun] > normal temperature heat1340 warmth1599 animal heat1603 body temperature1865 normothermia1898 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 328 Whan we holde waxen, Whan mihte lakken our limus & lesen our hete, We schulle forleten oure lif. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 251 The life hath lost his kindely hete, And he lay dede as any stone. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 31 The vitall heate is quyghte extinguished. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 279 Astonish'd at the sight, the vital Heat Forsakes her Limbs. natural heat natural heat n. [compare post-classical Latin naturalis calor (early 12th cent. in a British source)] the inherent heat of the body. ΚΠ 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. L ij b To moche alayenge with water wolde distroye naturall heate. 1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret iii. i. sig. E4v The teares of mandrake and the marble dew, Mixt in my draught, haue quencht my natural heate. 1757 B. Franklin Let. 14 Apr. in Papers (1963) VII. 188 And hence all the natural Coverings of Animals to keep them warm, are such, as retain and confine the natural Heat in the Body, by being bad Conductors. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 184 The very learned gentleman who has cooled the natural heat of his gingery complexion in pools and fountains of law. 1997 Philos. Rev. 106 336 The soul..perishes..whenever the natural heat of the body—which Aristotle identifies with ordinary fire—is extinguished or otherwise made sufficiently cold. < as lemmas |
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