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boil (obj) HEATbCIlvto (cause to) reach the temperature at which a liquid starts to turn into a gas煮沸，烧开;沸腾，达到沸点Liquid nitrogen boils at a very low temperature. [I]液氮在很低的温度下就达到沸点了。If you give water to a small baby to drink, you should boil it first. [T]如果你喂婴儿水喝，应把水先烧开。When a container boils, esp. one used for cooking, or you boil a container, it is heated until the liquid in it starts to turn into a gas.开，滚;烧开，煮开The saucepan's boiling. [I]炖锅烧开了。Could you boil a kettle for me? [T]你能给我烧壶水吗？If food boils, or you boil food, it is cooked by being put in water which is heated until it starts to turn into a gas.在沸水中煮;烹煮The carrots are boiling. [I]胡萝卜在煮着。I boiled some potatoes for dinner. [T]我煮了些土豆作饭。If you boil clothes, you wash them in a container of very hot water. [T]在沸水中洗衣服消毒。When a liquid boils away, it all turns into a gas so that none of it is left in liquid form. [I]汽化，煮干;煮掉When you boil down a liquid or food, or it boils down, you heat it so that part of it is turned into gas, and its amount is reduced.煮浓;熬浓You make jam by boiling down fruit. [M]你将水果熬一下做果酱。Leave the sauce to boil down. [I]将调味汁煮浓些。To boil down information, or to boil information down, is to reduce it, usually so that it contains only its most important parts.压缩，简化The journalist boiled down his lengthy report to just a few paragraphs.那个记者将他的长篇报告压缩成了几段。To boil down to something is to be the reason for it.表明是，意味着;归结为The problem all boils down to a lack of money.问题都在于缺钱。If a container or food boils dry, all the liquid in the container in which the food was cooking has turned to gas. [I]煮干，烧干When a liquid boils over, it rises up as it starts to turn into a gas, and flows over the edge of its container.沸溢，煮沸Careful, the milk's boiling over! [I]小心，牛奶煮沸溢出来了！If a container boils over, the liquid in it rises up as it starts to turn into a gas, and flows over the edge.沸溢That saucepan is boiling over. [I]炖锅煮得溢出来了。When a person or situation boils over, they suddenly become out of control or violent.激动，发怒;（形势）失去控制，爆发If you boil up a liquid (or food), you heat liquid in a container (and cook food in it).烧热;煮熟Could you boil some water up for me? [M]你能为我烧点水吗？I'll just boil up the peas, then dinner will be ready. [M]我只要煮些豌豆，晚餐就好了。If a difficult situation boils up, it becomes more difficult and dangerous.变得更困难，更危险Trouble has been boiling up in the prison for weeks.几周来监狱里的乱子越闹越大。If a person says that they can't boil an egg, they mean that they are unable to cook even the simplest meal.对做饭一窍不通
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