- 1焚化、燒掉（燒成灰）。台灣日常說垃圾進「焚化爐」。
To incinerate something is to burn it until it is gone — until it is ash. The point is to destroy it, not to cook it or to keep warm. Hospitals incinerate used needles; governments incinerate secret papers; cities incinerate household rubbish in a big furnace called an incinerator. You would not incinerate toast. The verb is formal and technical. Everyday English often just says burn it, or burn it to ashes. Incinerate tells you the burning is complete and on purpose. In Taiwan this is not a rare idea: many towns send rubbish to an incinerator rather than burying it, so the related Chinese is ordinary news language even if the English verb feels high.
組成From Latin incinerō, “to burn into ashes,” from cinis, “ashes.”
同家族的字
- incineratorthe furnace that burns things to ash
- incinerationthe noun for this act or process
- cindera piece of partly burned stuff; from the same Latin cinis
原始詞典資料3 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。
incinerateverb/ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/
- 1
To destroy by burning.
- His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.
- A cloud of smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine seized by the FBI and incinerated inside a Montana animal shelter sent its workers to the hospital, city officials in Billings said.
- 2
informalTo annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
incinerateadj/ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/
- 1
obsoleteReduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
- FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate
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