词汇 | vapour |
释义 | vapour noun UK(USvapor)uk /ˈveɪ.pər/ us /ˈveɪ.pɚ/ vapournoun (GAS)[ C or U ] gas or extremely small drops of liquid that result from the heating of a liquid or solid: 蒸气;雾气 The hollow glass tank contains hot mercury vapour.空心玻璃槽中装有高温汞蒸气。 Poisonous vapours burst out of the factory during the accident.事故发生时有毒气体从那家工厂迸溢而出。 Physics: the state of matter absorbency acidic allotropic compressible crystalline e-liquid fluidity gasses impervious melted polyunsaturated powdery rarefy reflective rustily rusty scaly self-healing sloppily sloppy vapournoun (ILLNESS)the vapours[ plural ]old-fashioned a condition in which someone suddenly feels ill and weak, usually because of a shock癔病;忧郁 Disorders of muscles & the nervous system acoustic neuroma ageusia agraphia akinetic-rigid HD alexia charley horse CJD comatose dysgraphia dysphasia dysphasic dysphonia dyspraxia neuralgia neurosurgical NMO palsy Parkinson's parosmia shin splints Examples of vapourvapour Despite the cold wet wind blowing in hard from the street, the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered stupefyingly about our heads. The ticks proved very susceptible to the effects of the vapours of ammonia and clove oil respectively. The idea that decomposing organic matter released vapours that generated acute diseases and general illhealth in humans was generally applicable to organic wastes. There is also evidence that there is water within the mantle and these vapours and gases can be observed during volcanic eruptions. Evaporation and condensation take place many times as the vapours rise up the column. Under such conditions vapours diffuse through the porous surface layer. Everything is still chaos, but, slowly, ghosts are transformed into living flesh, floating vapours turn solid, and - who knows? When the mixture is heated, ethanol and water vapours enter the fractionating column. The cracked vapours containing smaller molecules are separated by distillation. Suddenly a goat's head appears, growing to huge proportions; the room fills with red light, mephitic vapours exude from the goat's nostrils. The vapours of a large number of substances were tested and in practically every case the ticks proved susceptible to the odours. They changed by the minute as the clouds crossed them; the clouds themselves, impenetrable mass or the wispiest of vapours. Previously people thought infections were carried by smells or by mysterious vapours. The "vapours," like all the other insubstantial, ghostly notions in this story, have become real, and the woman falls down dead, with pleasure. Exposure of the insects was therefore always to the vapours emanating from the plant tissue upon hydrolysis. See all examples of vapour These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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