boil/bɔɪl/

vi

1. 达到沸点

• boiling water 沸水

• The milk is boiling. 牛奶煮开了。

2. 激动；发火

3. (海水等)翻涌；迸发

vt

1. 煮沸；使到沸点

• I'm boiling the baby's milk. 我正给小孩煮奶呢。

2. 在开水中煮

• Boil the patatoes for 10 minutes. 把这些土豆煮10分钟。

3. 使激动；激怒

词组boil down

1. 煮浓；熬浓

• She boiled the sauce down to make it taste better. 她把汁熬浓些使味道更好。

2. 压缩；减化

• The professor told me to boil down my paper to 3,000 words. 教授要求我把论文压缩到3,000字。

boil down to 表明是，意味着，归结于

• It all boils down to his resolution. 一切都要归结于他的决心。

boil over

1. 沸溢

• Don't let the milk boil over! 别让牛奶溢出来!

2. 激动，发怒，(情绪)爆发

• The contradiction boils over into a fight. 矛盾激化成为打斗。

boil up

1. (云烟等)旋转翻滚

• The thick smoke is boiling up from the building. 滚滚浓烟从大楼里冒出。

2. 即将爆发

• A war is boiling up. 一场战争即将爆发。

make sb.'s blood boil 见blood