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A haze is a light mist in the air, often made of heat, dust, or pollution, which makes things a little harder to see clearly in the distance. The word is also used for a , unclear state of mind — 'the whole afternoon passed in a haze' means someone felt confused or not fully alert. In American English, 'to haze' someone is to force new members of a club, team, or fraternity to do or unpleasant tasks as part of joining.
薄霧、霾(因高溫、灰塵或污染);(比喻)意識模糊、恍惚;(美式,動詞)對新生/新成員進行整人式入會儀式
原始詞典資料12 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。
Hazename
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A diminutive of the female given name Hazel.
hazenoun詞源 1/heɪz/
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Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
- A blue haze, half dust, half mist, touched the long valley with mystery.
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A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
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An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
- The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.
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Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- And is it that the haze of grief Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? The lowness of the present state, That sets the past in this relief?
- In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.
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beveragesbrewingbusinessAny substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
- Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.
hazeverb詞源 1/heɪz/
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To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- Pyramids of clouds now fringed its edge, and the centre had hazed into a sandy mist.
hazeverb詞源 2/heɪz/
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informalTo perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting person, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
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To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
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In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
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To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- Hazing a bear involves creating a "negative experience for a bear that seeks out human food or loses its natural avoidance of humans and developed areas," the release said. That involves using non-lethal rubber shotgun slugs, or rubber rounds and noise-deterrent rounds in sequence to scare bears away, according to the release.
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。