Smouldering

(-) of Smoulder

(a.) Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead.

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• An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• A fine sight, the grand house in flames, and the madman's wife smouldering away to cinders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In Brazil the juice is collected in clay vessels and smoked and dried in a smouldering fire of palm nuts, which gives the material its dark brown appearance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But it would seem as easy to wake a bundle of old clothes with a spirituous heat smouldering in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It's not a case of spontaneous, but it's smouldering combustion it is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He proposed to burn the coal in a smouldering fire, to expel the sulphur and other impurities existing in the form of phosphorus, hydrogen and oxygen, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The latter was blinking in the bright light of the corridor, and peering at us and at the smouldering fire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It has been smouldering like that ever since it was lighted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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