seethe是什么意思,seethe怎么用

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seethe

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📰 外刊例句

Many Saudis are seething at Muhammad bin Salman’s reforms. 许多沙特人对穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼的改革感到怒火中烧。

—— 《经济学人》

—— 《纽约时报》


📖 基本释义

[verb] (of a liquid) bubble up as a result of being boiled
[动词] (指液体)由于煮沸而起泡


💡 深入解读

Seethe 是一个与小站(微信公众号:田间小站)上周推送的soothe较为形似又含义相对的单词。该词源自古英语seoþan(煮沸,喻指“心烦意乱、忧思”),其本义是作正式用语表示“翻滚、翻腾、冒泡、涌动”,多指液体因煮沸而起泡,以及海浪、水花等像水煮沸那般迅速猛烈地移动,

比如:

The waves seethed around the rocks. They were too turbulent for us to be able to take the boat out.浪在岩石周围翻腾,太汹涌了,我们无法驾船出海。

不过现在更多的是用其比喻义,既可以用来形容大量的人或物在狭小的空间内“密集、云集、充满、遍布”,进行快速或繁忙地移动,常用搭配seethe with sth作正式用语使用,

比如:

The forest below her seethed and teemed with life.她下面的森林里处处生机勃勃。

The man destitute of experience dodged amongst the seething crowds of men.那个毫无经验的人在川流不息的人群中东躲西闪。

也可以用来形容人“强压怒火、生闷气、憋气”,即内心充满强烈但无法表达的怒火,常用搭配seethe with sth或seethe at sth,

比如:

She grinned derisively while I seethed with rage.我怒火中烧,她却嘲弄地咧着嘴笑。

The hefty man was evicted from the bar for drunken and disorderly behaviour. Then he seethed silently in the corner.那个身材高大的男人因为醉酒及暴力滋事被赶出酒馆。随后他在角落里默默地生闷气。


📚 名著用例

While everyone around him filled their flagons, Harry cleared away his things, seething . 哈利周围的同学都在往短颈瓶里装药剂,他把东西一样样收起来,心里气得不行。

— 出自《英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第五本《哈利·波特与凤凰社》( Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )。》


🔍 同近义词

  • boil: (with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapor
  • bubble: (of a liquid) contain bubbles of air or gas rising to the surface
  • simmer: (of water or food) stay just below the boiling point while being heated
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