单词	ember
释义	emberem‧ber /ˈembə $ -ər/ noun [countable usually plural] Word Origin WORD ORIGINember Origin: 1300-1400 Old Norse eimyrja Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A big bed of embers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, under an iron pot hung from an ancient crane. Bethany inhaled deeply and made the embers glow. He poked at the embers beneath it with a stick. Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site. Some one stood carelessly among the embers, as if having his flesh charred was the least of his worries. The twins stood over it, stirring the last embers with their feet. To his horror he realised his hand was lying in the embers. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the embers of a fire (=pieces of wood, coal etc that have almost been completely burned)· He stared at the glowing embers of the fire. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► dying · Left alone, Breeze crouched over the dying embers and tried to realize that this was Christmas Eve. a piece of wood or coal that stays red and very hot after a fire has stopped burning:  glowing embers
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