incandescent
/ˌɪnkænˈdesənt/adjective
1- emitting light as a result of being heated炽热发光的：
plumes of incandescent liquid rock.
炽热发光熔岩散出的羽丛状烟气。
1.1
- (of an electric light) containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it（电灯）白热的, 白炽的。
1.2
- extremely angry暴怒的, 光火的：
I am incandescent at the way the OFT has acted.
我对公平贸易局的做事方式大为光火。
1.3
- of outstanding and exciting quality; brilliant超群的, 杰出的：
Mravinsky's incandescent performance of Siegfried's Funeral March.
姆拉温斯基超群的齐格弗里德葬礼进行曲演奏。
派生词
incandescence
nounincandescently
adverb词源
late 18th cent.: from French， from Latin incandescent- 'glowing'， from the verb incandescere, from in- (expressing intensive force) + candescere 'become white' （from candidus 'white'）.