broil

英 [br??l] 美[br??l]

GRE暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?broils;過去式:?broiled;過去分詞:?broiled;現在分詞:?broiling;

1. 就像熱鍋上的螞蟻一樣，導致焦躁、騷動、混亂、爭吵、吵架。

broil 烤

詞源同brew, burn.

broil (v.1): "to cook," late 14c. (earlier "to burn," mid-14c.), from Old French bruller "to broil, roast" (Modern French br?ler), earlier brusler "to burn" (11c.), which, with Italian bruciare, is of uncertain and much-disputed origin.

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *brodum "broth," borrowed from Germanic and ultimately related to brew (v.). Gamillscheg proposes it to be from Latin ustulare "to scorch, singe" (from ustus, past participle of urere "to burn") and altered by influence of Germanic "burn" words beginning in br-. Related: Broiled; broiling.
broil (v.2): early 15c., "to quarrel, brawl," also "mix up, present in disorder," from Anglo-French broiller "mix up, confuse," Old French brooillier "to mix, mingle," figuratively "to have sexual intercourse" (13c., Modern French brouiller), perhaps from breu, bro "stock, broth, brew," from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old High German brod "broth") akin to broth (see brew (v.)); also compare imbroglio.

2. That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.: 那將會使他們陷入這兩國的爭斗之中.

3. This deadly broil fell out in the midst of Verona at noonday.: 這件可怕的亂子是中午時候出在維洛那城的中心.