vapour

英 ['ve?p?] 美['vep?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?vapours;

vapour: vapour: [14] Latin vapor meant ‘steam, heat’. English acquired it via Old French vapour. The now archaic use of the plural, vapours, for a ‘fit of fainting, hysteria, etc’, which dates from the 17th century, was inspired by the notion that exhalations from the stomach and other internal organs affected the brain. Vapid [17] comes from Latin vapidus ‘insipid’, which may have been related to vapor.
=> vapid
vapour (n.): chiefly British English spelling of vapor; see -or.

2. A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.: 云是由大氣中的水蒸氣凝結(jié)成的.

4. If it were not for the vapour in the air, there would be no dew.: 如果空氣中沒(méi)有水氣, 就沒(méi)有露水.

5. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.: 日記會(huì)變灰,他會(huì)被蒸發(fā).