| 释义 |
vat/væt/ n. & v.●n. 1 a large tank or other vessel, esp. for holding liquids or something in liquid in the process of brewing, tanning, dyeing, etc. (尤指酿酒、鞣革、染色等工序中用于盛液体或浸泡物品的)大桶;大盆;瓮,缸 2 a dyeing liquor in which a textile is soaked to take up a colourless soluble dye afterwards coloured by oxidation in air 瓮染料制剂 ●v. tr. (vatted, vatting) place or treat in a vat 把…盛入(或浸入)大桶;在大桶中处理 [Middle English, southern & western variant of fat, Old English fœt, from Germanic] |