smoke
英 [sm??k]美[smok]
- n. 煙；抽煙；無常的事物
- vi. 冒煙，吸煙；抽煙；彌漫
- vt. 吸煙；抽
CET4CET6TEM4考研中高頻詞基本詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?smokes;過去式:?smoked;過去分詞:?smoked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?smoking;
中文詞源
smoke 煙，冒煙，抽煙
來自中古英語 smoke,煙，來自古英語 smoca,煙，來自 Proto-Germanic*smukona,冒煙，來自 PIE*smeugh,冒煙，可能與 smell 有詞源上的聯(lián)系。引申詞義抽煙，吸煙等。
英文詞源
- smoke
- smoke: [OE] Smoke has close relatives in German schmauch and Dutch smook, now specialized in meaning to ‘thick smoke’. And more distantly it is linked to Welsh mwg and Breton moged ‘smoke’, Lithuanian smaugti ‘choke with smoke’, Greek smugenai ‘be consumed with heat’, and Armenian mux ‘smoke’. The use of the verb smoke in connection with tobacco is first recorded in 1604, in James I’s Counterblast to Tobacco.
- smoke (n.1)
- late Old English smoca (rare) "fumes and volatile material given off by burning substances," related to smeocan "give off smoke," from Proto-Germanic *smuk- (cognates: Middle Dutch smooc, Dutch smook, Middle High German smouch, German Schmauch), from PIE root *smeug- "to smoke; smoke" (cognates: Armenian mux "smoke," Greek smykhein "to burn with smoldering flame," Old Irish much, Welsh mwg "smoke").
There is no fyre without some smoke [Heywood, 1562]
The more usual noun was Old English smec, which became dialectal smeech. Abusive meaning "black person" attested from 1913, American English. Smoke-eater "firefighter" is c. 1930. Figurative phrase go up in smoke "be destroyed" (as if by fire) is from 1933. Smoke-alarm first attested 1936; smoke-detector from 1957. - smoke (v.)
- Old English smocian "to produce smoke, emit smoke," especially as a result of burning, from smoke (n.1). Meaning "to drive out or away or into the open by means of smoke" is attested from 1590s. Meaning "to apply smoke to, to cure (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke" is first attested 1590s. In connection with tobacco, "draw fumes from burning into the mouth," first recorded 1604 in James I's "Counterblast to Tobacco." Related: Smoked; smoking. Smoking gun in figurative sense of "incontestable evidence" is from 1974.
- smoke (n.2)
- "cigarette," slang, 1882, from smoke (n.1). Also "opium" (1884). Meaning "a spell of smoking tobacco" is recorded from 1835.
雙語例句
- 1. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
- 滾滾濃煙盤旋翻騰，惡臭味嗆得她喘不過氣來。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. They were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.
- 他們因吸入大量煙塵被送往醫(yī)院。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. A thick haze of acrid smoke hung in the air.
- 空氣中彌漫著刺鼻的濃煙。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. By-laws are to make it illegal to smoke in public.
- 地方法規(guī)將規(guī)定在公共場合抽煙為非法。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. There was a drift of smoke above the trees.
- 樹林上空飄浮著一股煙。
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