| 释义 |
Examples:silk raw material (prepared by boiling in soap)—cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)—be taken dissolved in boiling water (of Chinese herbal medicine)—break a liquid substance up into components by boiling—cooked rice reheated in boiling water—battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution—lit. a boiling cauldron of voices [idiom.]—secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water [idiom.]—lit. please Sir, get inthe boiling pot [idiom.]—seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over—lit. mention the pot that doesn't boil (common saying); touch a sore spot—boil food briefly then dress with soy etc—boil sb. alive (capital punishment in Imperial China)— |