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单词 napalm
释义

napalm

/ˈneɪpɑːm /
noun [mass noun]
A highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flame-throwers, consisting of petrol thickened with special soaps.I remember me and my mates nearly burning my shed down making napalm from petrol and soap when I was about 13 or 14....
  • Meanwhile, the prime stocks of precision munitions have been drawn down, and speculation about the future use of cluster bombs and napalm and other vile weapons is being heard.
  • The white supremacist, who amassed a terrifying stockpile of arms and explosives including home-made napalm and shotguns, has been jailed for 11 years.
verb [with object]
Attack with bombs containing napalm.The defenders had been bombed and napalmed by airplanes, shellacked by artillery and doused with poison gas, and they had no ammunition of their own left to fight back....
  • In the foreground, I copied this photo of a girl who'd been napalmed in the Vietnam war.
  • I heard the marine colonel say: ‘We napalmed those bridges.’

Origin

1940s: from na(phthenic) and palm(itic acid).

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