- 1澆得濕透、淋透
To drench someone or something is to make them extremely wet — soaked through, not a light splash. Rain can drench you on the way home; a wave can drench people on a boat; you can drench a plant by pouring on far too much water. It is a vivid everyday verb, stronger than wet and close to soak. You also hear it in cooking (drench the cake in syrup) and, a little more loosely, in set pictures: drenched in sweat, drenched in moonlight (that last one is poetic). Though actually, the word started as a drink: Old English used it for a draught or a potion, and farmers still give a drench as liquid medicine to an animal. For most , the “make wet” verb is the one that matters. It is not rude and not especially formal.
組成From Old English drenc, a drink or potion. The verb meant “to give someone a drink” and also “to soak them.” It is historically a doublet of the noun drink, and the verb is the old causative of drink — “make someone drink” — which later settled on “soak.”
原始詞典資料10 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。
drenchnoun詞源 1/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
- 1
archaicA dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
- [T]hey need not carry ſuch an unvvorthy ſuſpicion over the Preachers of Gods vvord, as to tutor their unſoundneſſe vvith the Abcie of a Liturgy, or to diet their ignorance, and vvant of care, vvith the limited draught of a Mattin, and even ſong drench.
- Let ſuch bethink them, if the ſleepy drench / Of that forgetful Lake benumme not ſtill, / That in our proper motion we aſcend / Up to our native ſeat: deſcent and fall / To us is adverſe.
- 2
biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
- O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle.
- It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt.
drenchverb詞源 2/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
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To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
- Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]
- But music alone, would not do—Some roast-beef was a necessary article, and some wine, to feed and drench the actors.
- 2
biologymedicinenatural-sciencesTo cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
- 3
To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
- That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
- Deſolations by vvarrs; hovv many fields have been drencht vvith blood, and compoſted vvith carcaſſes; hovv many Millions of men have been cut off in all ages by the edge of the ſvvord?
- 4
obsoleteTo drown (someone).
- VVhat flames (q[uo]d he) vvhen I thee preſent ſee, / In daunger rather to be drent, then brent?
- He lookt a little further, and eſpyde / Another vvretch, vvhoſe carcas deepe vvas drent / VVithin the riuer, vvhich the ſame did hyde: […]
- 5
obsoleteTo overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
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obsoleteTo be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
- Alas, now drencheth my ſwete fo, / That with the ſpoyle of my hart did go, / And left me but (alas) why did he ſo?
drenchnoun詞源 2/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
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An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
- Whenever it was the thought first struck him / How Death, at unawares, might duck him / Deeper than the grave, and quench / The gin-shop's light in Hell's grim drench […]
- 2
An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.
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