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单词 cauldron
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Definition of cauldron in English:

cauldron

(also caldron)
noun ˈkɔːldr(ə)nˈkɒldr(ə)nˈkɔldrən
  • 1A large metal pot with a lid and handle, used for cooking over an open fire.

    (放在火堆上用来煮食物的有盖和带柄的)大锅

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone.
    • Outside burned a fire over which hung an iron cauldron, ready simmering.
    • A French table is likely to have on it a cauldron of vegetable soup, complete with carrots and chard and tiny pasta shapes such as macaroni.
    • The ingredients were placed in a large cauldron and cooked over a slow fire for a whole afternoon until it turned into a pot of delicious soup.
    • Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon.
    • Inside was a fire with a huge iron cauldron on it.
    • One of the more remarkable pieces in the collection is a large urali or metal cauldron of over one metre in diameter.
    • They've been flooded with supplies: pies and cakes, bottles of vodka, huge cauldrons of soup.
    • In the days ahead we'll take turns stirring steaming cauldrons over the camp fire.
    • They would mix strange and foul liquids producing gold using caldrons with fake bottoms, or chunks of minerals or charcoal containing small amounts of gold.
    • On and around them are all sorts of spits, racks, trivets, pans, kettles, cauldrons and hot plates, all fashioned out of black cast iron.
    • I set and lit our fire, and filled our small cauldron with water.
    • A later warrior grave contained a bronze cauldron and a set of iron weapons.
    • Standing before her bubbling cauldron, the Crone raised her ancient hands and summoned yet another lower-level demon.
    • The famous Llyn Fawr hoard, found during reservoir construction in the Mid South Wales Valleys in 1911 and 1913, contained two complete bronze cauldrons.
    • A large cauldron or cooking pot set or suspended above an open fire was in general use.
    • A simmering stew sat in a large cauldron over an open fire; the smell alone made Jack's mouth water.
    • Mother boiled cauldrons of red sugar water daily and filled a motley collection of feeders which were suspended at various locations around the yard.
    • A man with a metal detector unearthed a cauldron thought to date back to 50BC.
    Synonyms
    cooking utensil, container, receptacle, vessel
  • 2A situation characterized by instability and strong emotions.

    〈喻〉骚动,躁动;愤激之情

    a cauldron of repressed anger

    强压着的一腔怒火。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They continue to live together, she in the company of ephemeral lovers, and he in a simmering cauldron of internalized anger.
    • And I think a lot of people have a real emotional cauldron going on within them.
    • Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
    • Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
    • Somehow, in the emotional cauldron of Parkhead, that quality is hugely reassuring.
    • During her drive home, her emotions began to bubble and seethe in the cauldron that was her mind.
    • Jud Dean of Felton, Delaware, is a 21-year-old cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he plays football and pursues physique perfection in the caldron of bodybuilding.
    • Many inventions of modern warfare were born in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War.
    • This implies that I saw schools as ‘evil cauldrons of conservatism,’ which does not reflect my views and my experience with very dedicated teachers.
    • I've never played anywhere like it - it was a septic cauldron of hatred.
    • The Athens pool strikes you as the most unlikely emotional cauldron.
    • What often emerges out of this seething cauldron is a mutually acceptable way forward.
    • His wife Kerry's, on the other hand, was a cauldron of domestic violence and emotional instability.
    • The feminist movement proper in France emerged from the cauldron of May 1968.
    • The film's ending is both justified and satisfying, a moment of grace in a cauldron of anger and hopelessness.
    • They remain seething cauldrons of anger, frustration and discontent that rest on an underlying current of tension and raw violence which can explode without warning at any time.
    • Premiership grounds that used to be seething cauldrons of humanity now have less atmosphere than a county library.
    • The continent appears to be a cauldron of corruption and superstition.
    • Most pressure in the cauldron of the Olympics athletics extravaganza will be on Marion Jones.
    • If Scotland's shinty players can keep their collective nerve in such a cauldron, then they will have truly earned the right to wear their blue jerseys.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French caudron, based on Latin caldarium, calidarium 'cooking-pot', from calidus 'hot'.

Definition of cauldron in US English:

cauldron

(also caldron)
nounˈkɔldrənˈkôldrən
  • 1A large metal pot with a lid and handle, used for cooking over an open fire.

    (放在火堆上用来煮食物的有盖和带柄的)大锅

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A man with a metal detector unearthed a cauldron thought to date back to 50BC.
    • I set and lit our fire, and filled our small cauldron with water.
    • Standing before her bubbling cauldron, the Crone raised her ancient hands and summoned yet another lower-level demon.
    • Outside burned a fire over which hung an iron cauldron, ready simmering.
    • A French table is likely to have on it a cauldron of vegetable soup, complete with carrots and chard and tiny pasta shapes such as macaroni.
    • In the days ahead we'll take turns stirring steaming cauldrons over the camp fire.
    • One of the more remarkable pieces in the collection is a large urali or metal cauldron of over one metre in diameter.
    • A large cauldron or cooking pot set or suspended above an open fire was in general use.
    • They would mix strange and foul liquids producing gold using caldrons with fake bottoms, or chunks of minerals or charcoal containing small amounts of gold.
    • Inside was a fire with a huge iron cauldron on it.
    • The famous Llyn Fawr hoard, found during reservoir construction in the Mid South Wales Valleys in 1911 and 1913, contained two complete bronze cauldrons.
    • Mother boiled cauldrons of red sugar water daily and filled a motley collection of feeders which were suspended at various locations around the yard.
    • On and around them are all sorts of spits, racks, trivets, pans, kettles, cauldrons and hot plates, all fashioned out of black cast iron.
    • A simmering stew sat in a large cauldron over an open fire; the smell alone made Jack's mouth water.
    • They've been flooded with supplies: pies and cakes, bottles of vodka, huge cauldrons of soup.
    • A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone.
    • A later warrior grave contained a bronze cauldron and a set of iron weapons.
    • Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon.
    • The ingredients were placed in a large cauldron and cooked over a slow fire for a whole afternoon until it turned into a pot of delicious soup.
    Synonyms
    cooking utensil, container, receptacle, vessel
    1. 1.1 A situation characterized by instability and strong emotions.
      〈喻〉骚动,躁动;愤激之情
      a cauldron of repressed anger

      强压着的一腔怒火。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
      • The continent appears to be a cauldron of corruption and superstition.
      • Premiership grounds that used to be seething cauldrons of humanity now have less atmosphere than a county library.
      • And I think a lot of people have a real emotional cauldron going on within them.
      • Jud Dean of Felton, Delaware, is a 21-year-old cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he plays football and pursues physique perfection in the caldron of bodybuilding.
      • Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
      • If Scotland's shinty players can keep their collective nerve in such a cauldron, then they will have truly earned the right to wear their blue jerseys.
      • The feminist movement proper in France emerged from the cauldron of May 1968.
      • I've never played anywhere like it - it was a septic cauldron of hatred.
      • Most pressure in the cauldron of the Olympics athletics extravaganza will be on Marion Jones.
      • Many inventions of modern warfare were born in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War.
      • They continue to live together, she in the company of ephemeral lovers, and he in a simmering cauldron of internalized anger.
      • During her drive home, her emotions began to bubble and seethe in the cauldron that was her mind.
      • The Athens pool strikes you as the most unlikely emotional cauldron.
      • His wife Kerry's, on the other hand, was a cauldron of domestic violence and emotional instability.
      • They remain seething cauldrons of anger, frustration and discontent that rest on an underlying current of tension and raw violence which can explode without warning at any time.
      • Somehow, in the emotional cauldron of Parkhead, that quality is hugely reassuring.
      • The film's ending is both justified and satisfying, a moment of grace in a cauldron of anger and hopelessness.
      • This implies that I saw schools as ‘evil cauldrons of conservatism,’ which does not reflect my views and my experience with very dedicated teachers.
      • What often emerges out of this seething cauldron is a mutually acceptable way forward.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French caudron, based on Latin caldarium, calidarium ‘cooking-pot’, from calidus ‘hot’.

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