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fume

/fyoom/US // fyum //UK // (fjuːm) //

烟雾,油烟,烟尘,烟气

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : Often fumes . any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
    • : an irritable or angry mood: He has been in a fume ever since the contract fell through.
v.有主动词 verb
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    fumed, fum·ing.

    • : to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor: giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.
    • : to treat with or expose to fumes.
v.无主动词 verb
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    fumed, fum·ing.

    • : to rise, or pass off, as fumes: smoke fuming from an ashtray.
    • : to emit fumes: The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.
    • : to show fretful irritation or anger: She always fumes when the mail is late.

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Examples

  • The Walters Art Museum abruptly shut its doors for three weeks starting in mid-June after about half a dozen employees became ill from inhaling fumes from chemicals used to repair the roof of one of the museum’s buildings.

  • Inhaling any residual fumes from it could damage your airways or worsen any respiratory condition.

  • Last week, in partnership with The Texas Tribune and NBC Universal, we published a story about a family poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes in Houston during the severe winter storms and power failures in February.

  • Gas generators are the standard method of bringing power to the powerless, but the fumes, weight, and noise prevent these big engines from being in-home power supplies or good portable camping generators.

  • Yes, they could run on fumes for a bit, relying on long-standing relationships and ingrained behaviors to keep some semblance of their culture alive in the digital realm.

  • In 1639 Venner published a volume entitled "A Treatise" concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco.

  • But the contemplation of his grief disturbs his equanimity more and more, and he begins to fret and fume.

  • The Commissary continued to fume about the disgraceful charges brought against his men until they reached camp.

  • They could only stand with lowered heads and fume and rumble.

  • A colourless liquor comes over first, and then a thick white fume, which condenses into the transparent liquor above mentioned.