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firewater

/fahyuhr-waw-ter, -wot-er/US // ˈfaɪərˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər //UK // (ˈfaɪəˌwɔːtə) //

火水,火焰水,火灾水,火焰之水

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : alcoholic drink; liquor.

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Examples

  • Red Crow deprecated these occurrences, but confessed his powerlessness to prevent the flow of either firewater or of blood.

  • They finally left him tied with his own new rope to a huge drift log at the base of the pier, and went back to buy more firewater.

  • Our young men were lazy, and had not many skins to sell; but they wanted Cappen Gray's goods; they liked the firewater a heap.

  • How long was it before our kind Christian friends discovered that the firewater of the palefaces was not an "agency" for good?

  • "The Comanches are not like the Pawnees or Cheyennes to kill their eyes and ears with firewater," retorted the chief.