核心畫面
A closed box with fire shut inside it: the heat cannot escape sideways, so it gathers in the metal — and you use that heat, either to warm the room or to cook.
可以想成一個關起來的鐵箱，火在裡面燒：火被圍住不亂竄，熱就集中在箱體上，你拿它把屋子烤暖，也可以在上面煮東西。現在廚…更多收起
可以想成一個關起來的鐵箱，火在裡面燒：火被圍住不亂竄，熱就集中在箱體上，你拿它把屋子烤暖，也可以在上面煮東西。現在廚房裡用瓦斯或電的爐台，等於是這個鐵箱換掉燃料之後的樣子——所以兩個名詞意思其實是同一個東西的兩個時代。動詞那一條則完全不是爐子。原始詞典資料9 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。
stovenoun詞源 1/stəʊv/
- 1
A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309. [I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- 2
A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- 3
A stovetop, with hotplates.
- 4
A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
- Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]
- 5
datedA house or room artificially warmed or heated.
- April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.
- How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
stoveverb詞源 1/stəʊv/
- 1
To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- to stove feathers
- The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.
- 2
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- to stove orange trees
- orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved
- 3
To jam; to sprain.
- to stove a finger
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。