vapour

英 ['veɪpə] 美 ['vepɚ]
  • n. 蒸气(等于vapor);水蒸气

英文词源


vapour
vapour: [14] Latin vapor meant ‘steam, heat’. English acquired it via Old French vapour. The now archaic use of the plural, vapours, for a ‘fit of fainting, hysteria, etc’, which dates from the 17th century, was inspired by the notion that exhalations from the stomach and other internal organs affected the brain. Vapid [17] comes from Latin vapidus ‘insipid’, which may have been related to vapor.
=> vapid
vapour (n.)
chiefly British English spelling of vapor; see -or.

双语例句


1. A cloud is a mass of vapour in the sky.
云是天空中的水汽团块.

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2. A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
云是由大气中的水蒸气凝结成的.

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3. Clouds are formations of condensed water vapour.
云是由凝聚的水蒸气构成的.

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4. If it were not for the vapour in the air, there would be no dew.
如果空气中没有水气, 就没有露水.

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5. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.
日记会变灰,他会被蒸发.

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