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fumes

/fyoom/US // fyum //UK // (fjuːm) //

烟雾,烟尘,烟气,烟雾剂

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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

  • To create that all-important alcohol content, the fumes are circulated out of the still into condensers.

  • Fumes filled the arena, engines revved, and the beastly vehicles made their way out on to the spotlight.

  • The smells of roasting maize, diesel fumes, and floral soap from the streets of Harare are still seared into my brain.

  • The stench of the backed-up toilets combines with the fumes of garbage fermenting in the midday sun.

  • But inhale the fumes of Republican rhetoric more deeply, and a more mind-blowing reality comes into focus.

  • In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.

  • The champagne was cold, and its subtle fumes played fantastic tricks with Edna's memory that night.

  • While they were talking another shell entered the small apartment, exploded, and filled the air with dust and stifling fumes.

  • And while the men breathed the bitter fumes, Chew-chew threatened the angry god and commanded him to go away.

  • Each sprite of aromatic perfume when released plunged into noiseless tumult with opposing fumes.