| 词汇 | cinder |
| 释义 | cinder noun[ C ] uk /ˈsɪn.dər/ us /ˈsɪn.dɚ/ a small piece of partly burned coal or wood: 煤渣;碳渣;余烬 One of the greatest problems of early train travel was hot cinders flying out of the smokestack and setting fire to clothing. The ground was covered in cinders and broken glass. There were little black specks on the window that I thought were cinders. be burned to a cinderThe cake was burned to a cinder (= burned black).蛋糕烤焦了。 Compare clinker Products of fire ash ashy belch burn something to a cinder clinker ember fumes haze smoke smokeless smokily smoky smut soot sooty cinder | American Dictionarycinder noun[ C ] us/ˈsɪn·dər/ a small piece of partly burned coal or wood: Get rid of the cinders before you build a new fire. Examples of cindercinder Then one of them actually danced in a frenzied state on glowing cinders, accompanied by drums. Moreover, households located close to coalfields would obtain coal more cheaply, and would, therefore, be less frugal in disposing of cinders. As a result, unnoticed cinders smoldering from our previous week's raid at another munitions plant will burn that one to the ground. The tops of some cinder cones are armoured by a layer of welded fallout/clastogenic lava. However, if the object were a large cinder block, significant damage would be likely and the final route should be quite different. After an initial sifting, the fine ashes were mixed with the bricks as part of the firing element, while the breeze or cinder was used as fuel for the kilns. Now it's up out of the cinders and back in the trendy running as a verb, to fast-track, and will soon be overtaken, if history repeats, by to fast-lane. Stinking vapour tainted the atmosphere of the entire island; - even the grass which no cinder rain had stifled completely withered up; - the fish perished in the poisoned sea. The fact that cinders from the elevated trains often set alight the awnings of shops below them is of so much interest that it is repeated three times. That fire has burnt out and there is nothing left in the grate but the cinders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing more blatant and open than a room burnt to a cinder. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is she aware there is absolutely no freedom anywhere if we all finish up in a radioactive cinder heap? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one wants a cup of tea one goes to an old shack covered with a tin roof and stands on cinders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the use of bringing 80 million tons a year to a cinder? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, unfortunately, newly married people have got to pay more for the pot scourers, pastry boards, coal and cinder sieves and sifters and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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