| 单词 | steam |
| 释义 | steam I. 1. a. < a steam of incense > b. archaic < every modest flower that needs the pure air and will not grow in steams — James Martineau > 2. a. b. 3. a. < full steam ahead > b. < had got here on his own steam, won a lot of scholarships — A.L.Rowse > < hit him a peach of a right … but the steam was gone — A.J.Liebling > c. < after six months of hard study, he felt the need to let off a little steam > < though not a demonstrative bird, the king penguin occasionally must let off steam — A.N.T.Rankin > 4. a. < travel by steam > b. < the sea voyage — a night and a day's steam — J.P.O'Donnell > c. < a blue-water man who had come into steam and the home trade to get an easier life — Thomas Wood †1950 > II. intransitive verb 1. < the heat steams out of the forest — Robert Payne > 2. a. < the town steamed in a listless heat — Vincent McHugh > < the cows … stood in the yards all day, ruminating and steaming — Adrian Bell > b. < at that time of year the boardwalk steams with sophistication — New York Times > 3. a. < reaching the little riverside landing … after a day and a half of steaming southward — Tom Marvel > < saw the train steaming in — Edith Sitwell > b. < when he steams into second base, say, on a long double — Time > < the racket smacked … and the white ball came steaming across at me — R.P.Warren > 4. < the boiler steams well > 5. < was still steaming over the insult he had received > transitive verb 1. 2. < women often like to steam the skin by covering it with hot towels — Morris Fishbein > as a. b. 3. 4. < steaming a carrier through the Strait of Gibraltar — Walter Karig > • - steam open |
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