- 1煤渣、炭渣（燒剩下的小硬塊，不是細灰）
A cinder is a very small hard bit left when wood, coal, or similar fuel has burned. It is not the fine grey powder we call ash, and it is not always still on fire — though a cinder can stay hot and orange for a while. You find cinders in a grate, a barbecue, a burnt-out fire. People also say burnt to a cinder when food is cooked until it is black. The word appears in older compounds too: a cinder track is a rough running track with a burnt surface; Americans say cinder block for a grey building block (British English more often says breeze block). English is named from this: the girl who sat among the dirty burnt bits of the fire. The English word itself is old and Germanic; the fairy tale did not give us cinder — cinder helped give us the English name of the girl.
組成From Middle English cyndyr / sinder, from Old English sinder, “cinder, dross, slag”, from West Germanic, from Germanic, from an old root for liquid slag and scale. Related in other Germanic languages to words like Dutch sintel and German Sinter. It does not split into English pieces.
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- Cinderellaher English name was shaped to this word, because she sat among the cinders of the fire
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cindername
- 1
A river in Alaska.
- 2
A female given name.
cindernoun/ˈsɪndəː/
- 1
Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
- Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
- 2
An ember.
- If from adown the hopeful chops The fat upon the cinder drops, To stinking smoke it turns the flame, Poisoning the flesh from whence it came
- 3
Slag from a metal furnace.
- 4
datedAny strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.
- Oh, horrid proposition! One would imagine, Tom, that you had been a coal-heaver. Had you said soda and cinder, I would have seconded the motion.
- She'd sit by the fire, arms crossed, demanding that Ruby spike her tea with a cinder. But Ruby would never give in to her demands, no matter how much her mam begged. There was no alcohol in the house now; Arthur had made sure of that in an effort to get Mary sober.
cinderverb/ˈsɪndəː/
- 1
To reduce to cinders.
- 2
To cover with cinders.
- We plan to cinder this path.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。