英:[vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ]
美:[vɑːlˈkeɪnoʊ]
英:[vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ]
美:[vɑːlˈkeɪnoʊ]
vol·ca·no
val keI no
复数:volcanoes或volcanos
词根:volcano
adj.volcanic 火山的;猛烈的;易突然发作的
adv.volcanically 火山似地;猛烈地
n.volcanic 火山岩
volcanism [地质] 火山作用
noun
a vent in the earth's crust through which molten rock, ash, gases, and the like are expelled.Lava spilled out of the volcano.
a mountain or hill, usu. forming a crater, created around such a vent by the discharge expelled from it.Many of Japan's mountains are volcanoes.You can hike to the top of the volcano since it's not active.
active volcano活火山
dormant volcano休眠火山;睡火山,休火山
extinct volcano死火山
这组词都有“山”的意思,其区别是:
hill通常指小的土山、石山或浅丘。有时也指高山,复数表群山。
volcano特指主要由喷出的熔岩和火山灰堆积而成的圆锥形火山。
mountain通常指比hill高而陡的高山、山岳。但这种区别不是绝对的,“大”与“小”常常是相对而言。
range形成的山脉或岭。
mount常用于地名之前, 即一般放在专用名词前,书面用词。
peak指山峰,也可指山顶。
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1610年代,源自意大利词语 vulcano,意为“燃烧的山”,源自拉丁语 Vulcanus,意为“火神,火焰,火山”(参见 Vulcan)。罗马人最初将该名称用于埃特纳山,他们认为这是火神铁匠铺。英语中早期的形式为 volcan(1570年代),源自法语。
火山
火山
Italian or Spanish; Italian vulcano, from Spanish volcán, ultimately from Latin Volcanus Vulcan
The first known use of volcano was in 1665
volleyballnoun
a game played by volleying a large air-filled ball over a netalso: the ball used to play this game
volley1 of 2noun
a group of missiles (as arrows or bullets) passing through the air
a firing of a number of weapons (as rifles) at the same time
a bursting forth of many things at once
a volley of praise
the act of volleying
volley2 of 2verb
to shoot in a volley
to hit an object (as a ball) while it is in the air before it touches the ground
volitionnoun
the act or power of making one's choices or decisions : will
they do not do this of their own volition
volitionnoun
the act or power of making one's choices or decisions : will
they do not do this of their own volition
volenoun
any of various small rodents that are closely related to the lemmings and muskrats but in general look like fat mice or rats and that are sometimes harmful to crops
volenoun
any of various small rodents that are closely related to the lemmings and muskrats but in general look like fat mice or rats and that are sometimes harmful to crops
volcanonoun
a vent in the earth's crust from which melted or hot rock and steam come outalso: a hill or mountain composed entirely or in part of the material thrown out
1 “He says El Patron is like a force of nature—a tornado or volcano or something. He says you can’t help being awestruck even when you might get killed. I think it’s all rubbish!”
2 A volcano erupts because a terrible creature is imprisoned in the mountain and every now and then struggles to get free.
3 It now seems likely that the volcanoes of Io are tapping an underground ocean of liquid sulfur, melted and concentrated near the surface.
4 But if something displeased the gods—and sometimes it took very little—the consequences were awesome: droughts, storms, wars, earthquakes, volcanoes, epidemics.
5 Maybe he’d teleported them into a den of Cyclopes, or a thousand feet above another volcano.
6 The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanos formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned.
7 But Jess never imagined that it was a real volcano, a killer that could explode.
8 When his chin went hard, he was really trying to hold down the lid on a private volcano, but sometimes the lid blew.
9 Our oceans are alive with earthquakes, volcanoes, and more recently, tsunamis.
海中充满着地震 、 火山, 包括最近发生的海啸.
10 She felt like a volcano bubbling and stewing underneath the surface.
11 I reach into my jacket pocket and pull out the small disc of green see-glass, born in the heart of a volcano, capable of showing the future.
12 That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire.
13 The lava flowed down the sides of the volcano.
熔岩沿火山坡面涌流而下.
14 But as the days passed and the rumblings failed to develop into anything dramatic, people grew restless, and the view became general that the volcano wasn’t going to blow after all.
15 But the volcano was not the only hot thing on that island.
16 “That cherry paste was the highest quality. Picked from trees on the mouth of a volcano.”
17 My favorite rocks to find were geodes, which Monyaid came from the volcanoes that had erupted to form the Tuscarora Mountains millions of years ago, during the Miocene period.
18 All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted.
19 On the distant horizon, Kyle could see a volcano spewing molten lava.
20 A thick fogbank had rolled in at dusk, and now, between the intense dark and the fog, it was impossible to see much of anything except for the volcano outlined by the moon.