ferment英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
A state of agitation or of turbulent change.

— Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

— A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]
A catalyst.

动词 v.

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

— The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.
To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

— Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

词形变化

ferments present,singular,third-person fermenting participle,present fermented participle,past fermented past ferments plural

词汇关系

近义词

yeast

衍生词

apoferment coferment fermentability fermentable fermental fermentarian fermentate fermentative fermenter fermentic fermentome fermentor lactoferment nonfermenting overferment preferment referment re-ferment underferment unfermenting

词源

词源 1

From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.

词源 2

From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.