seethe
/siːð/verb
no obj.
1- (of a liquid) bubble up as a result of being boiled(液体)沸腾, 冒泡:
the brew foamed and seethed.
饮料起泡沸腾了。
1.1
- with obj. archaic cook (food) by boiling it in a liquid〈古〉煮(食物):
others were cut into joints and seethed in cauldrons made of the animal's own skins.
其余部分被切成大块肉放在用这个动物自己的皮做成的大锅里煮。
1.2
- (of a river or the sea) foam as if it were boiling; be turbulent(河, 海)起泡; 翻腾:
the grey ocean seethed.
灰暗的大海翻腾了。
1.3
- no obj.(of a person) be filled with intense but unexpressed anger(人)怒火中烧, 生闷气:
inwardly he was seething at the slight to his authority.
对于对他权威的轻视他内心很生气 。
1.4
- (of a place) be crowded with people or things moving about in a rapid or hectic way(地方)熙熙攘攘; 密集, 充满:
the entire cellar was seething with spiders
整个地窖爬满了蜘蛛
the village seethed with life.
这村子充满了生机。
1.5
- with adverbial of direction(of a crowd of people) move in a rapid or hectic way(人群)蜂拥:
we cascaded down the stairs and seethed across the station
我们奔下楼梯, 蜂拥着穿过车站
as adj. seething the seething mass of commuters.熙熙攘攘的上下班乘客。
词源
Old English sēothan make or keep boiling, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zieden.