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A furnace is an space built for burning fuel at a very high heat, used to warm a building, melt metal, or make glass. In everyday American speech, "the furnace" often just means the heating system that warms a whole house. People also say a very hot place "feels like a furnace" to mean it's extremely hot.
火爐、熔爐；(美) (家用) 暖氣爐。
組成From Latin "fornax" (an oven).
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Furnacename
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A surname, variant of Furness.
furnacenoun/ˈfɝnɪs/
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An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
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A device that provides heat for a building.
- HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
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Any area that is excessively hot.
- The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
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A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- forged in the furnace of fierce competition
- For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to paſſe this daye.
furnaceverb/ˈfɝnɪs/
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To heat in a furnace.
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To exhale like a furnace.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。