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词汇 boil
释义 boil
verb
uk /bɔɪl/ us /bɔɪl/

boilverb (HEAT LIQUID)


A2[ I or T ]
to reach, or cause something to reach, the temperature at which a liquid starts to turn into a gas: (使)沸腾,煮沸,烧开
Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature.液态氮在很低的温度下就会达到沸点。
She scalded herself on some boiling water.她被开水烫伤了。
If you give water to a small baby to drink, you have to boil it first.如果你喂婴儿水喝,必须先把水烧开。
B1[ I or T ]
to heat a container, especially one used for cooking, until the liquid in it starts to turn into a gas: (做饭时)煮沸,烧开
The pan's boiling.锅烧开了。
mainly UKCould you boil the kettle for me?你能给我烧壶水吗?
B1[ T ]
to cook food by putting it in water that is boiling: 在沸水中煮,烹煮
I've boiled some potatoes for dinner.晚饭我煮了些土豆。
boiled carrots煮熟的胡萝卜
 boil dry
If a container or food boils dry, all the liquid in the container in which the food was cooking turns to gas: 煮干,烧干
He'd left a pan of water on the stove and it had boiled dry.
[ T ]
to wash clothes in a container of very hot water在沸水中洗(衣服)
Ask Simon to cook the meal? Come off it, he can hardly boil an egg!叫西蒙去做饭?别瞎扯了,他连煮个鸡蛋都不会!
As water begins to boil, bubbles rise ever faster to the surface.
To make a thicker sauce, reduce the ingredients by boiling for five minutes.
Water boils at 212° Fahrenheit and 100° Celsius/Centigrade.水在212华氏度,即100摄氏度沸腾。
Stir the sauce gently until it begins to boil.慢慢搅动酱汁直至煮沸。
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impregnate
re-emit
reabsorb
react
reboil
recondense
scald
vaporize

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Hot & heat
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boilverb (BE ANGRY)


[ Iusually continuous ]informal
to be extremely angry: 非常气愤
boil withHe was boiling with rage.他怒不可遏。
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ape
ballistic
bananas
bay for bloodidiom
blow
chip
fulminating
fume
get bent out of shapeidiom
get your knickers in a twistidiom
give someone evilsidiom
roof
sharp
splenetic
splenetically
stew
strop
temper
throw

Idiom


can't boil an egg

Phrasal verbs


boil away
boil (something) down
boil something down
boil down to something
boil over
boil up
boil something up
boil
noun
uk /bɔɪl/ us /bɔɪl/

boilnoun (SWELLING)


[ C ]
a painful swelling on the skin that is filled with pus (= thick, yellow liquid)疖子,脓疮
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boilnoun (HEAT)


[ S ]
the act of washing or cooking something in very hot water煮;烹煮
 a/the boil
the state of boiling: 沸腾(状态)
bring something to a boil Bring the water to a boil, then add the pasta.先把水烧开,再加入意大利面。
bring something to the boilUKBring the water to the boil, then add the pasta.先把水烧开,再加入意大利面。
Let the liquid come to a boil and then reduce the heat.
As the liquid comes to a boil, whisk it lightly.
Bring the sauce very gently to a boil and let it simmer for ten minutes.
Add half a teaspoon of salt and bring to the boil.
 
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washer-dryer
washing
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Idiom


go off the boil

boil | American Dictionary


boil
verb[ I/T ]
us/bɔɪl/

boilverb[I/T] (HEAT)


(of a liquid) to start to turn into a gas because of being heated, or to cause a liquid to turn into a gas in this way:
[ I ]The water is boiling.
[ T ]We’d better boil this water before we drink it.
If you say that a container has boiled, the liquid in it has started to turn into a gas:
[ I ]The pot’s beginning to boil.
If food boils, or you boil food, it is cooked by being put in water that is heated until the water is in the process of turning into a gas:
[ T ]I boiled some potatoes for dinner.

Phrasal verbs


boil down something
boil down to something
boil over
boil
noun
us/bɔɪl/

boilnoun (SWELLING)


[ C ]
a painful, red swelling on the skin that is filled with pus (= a yellow liquid from an infection)

boilnoun (HEAT)


[ U ]
If you bring something to a boil, or let something come to a boil, you heat it until it starts to turn into a gas:
Bring the water to a boil, then add the pasta.

Examples of boil


boil
Parsing a permutation phrase boils down to checking whether the input matches one of the paths in the permutation tree.
Even the fiscal crisis that had been brewing in the 1970s and had boiled over in the 1980s had apparently been resolved.
Make up with 1 teaspoon of salt in 200 ml (approx. 1 cup) of previously boiled water.
Here, the user boils water, prepares a sauce, boils water again and finally cooks pasta.
Samples were then boiled for 30 min and subjected to 2 cycles of freezing and thawing.
Using downside deviation as a risk measure boils down to taking quadratic shortfall.
In our framework the problem boils down to deciding whether, when two agents meet, they should copy each other or cancel each other out.
The oak galls are collected, crushed and either boiled or infused in rainwater (or white-wine vinegar).
However, maize harvested early must either be eaten relatively soon or boiled and dried to prevent rotting.
A dish made of a chicken stuffed with highly seasoned, fried, ground meat, boiled eggs, mixed fruit and peppers.
A well-known dish comprising onions soaked in vinegar and other seasonings added to chicken broth, the boiled chicken having been removed and browned for serving.
The wort, in turn, was boiled with hops.
Seeds made water-permeable by boiling imbibed water, and thus germinated, at a much slower rate than those made water-permeable by mechanical scarification.
Percentage leakage was determined as the highest conductivity before boiling as a fraction of the highest conductivity after boiling.
A 54-ml mixture of methanol and chloroform (1:2 by volume), heated to boiling point, was used as the solvent.
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