ventilator

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
  2. A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
    — Near-synonym: respirator
  3. Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation. figuratively
    — A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
  4. A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater. obsolete,slang

词形变化

ventilators plural

词汇关系

衍生词
screw ventilator tank ventilator

词源

From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
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