smoulder

verb

1. （无明火地）阴燃，闷燃
   to burn slowly without a flame
   1. The bonfire was still smouldering the next day.
      到了第二天，篝火还在闷燃。
   2. a smouldering cigarette
      慢慢燃烧的香烟
   3. The feud smouldered on for years.
      这场冤仇积结了多年。
2. （感情）郁积，压在心头
   to be filled with a strong emotion that you do not fully express
   1. His eyes smouldered with anger.
      他眼里冒着强压的怒火。
   2. Anger smouldered in his eyes.
      强压的怒火在他眼里燃烧。

in AM, use 美国英语用 smolder


1. VERB (有烟、无火焰地)闷烧，阴燃
   If something smoulders, it burns slowly, producing smoke but not flames.
   1. A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today...
      国会周围的一些大楼今天还在冒烟。
   2. Whole blocks had been turned into smouldering rubble.
      整座整座的街区都变成了一堆冒着青烟的瓦砾。
2. VERB (愤怒、仇恨等)郁积，憋在心里
   If a feeling such as anger or hatred smoulders inside you, you continue to feel it but do not show it.
   1. Baxter smouldered as he drove home for lunch...
      巴克斯特开车回家吃午饭的路上，心里一直憋着一团火。
   2. That's a lot of people smouldering with resentment...
      许多人的心里都在愤愤不平。
   3. There is a smouldering anger in the black community.
      在黑人社区里，人们的心中都揣着一团怒火。
3. VERB 性感迷人
   If you say that someone smoulders, you mean that they are sexually attractive, usually in a mysterious or very intense way.
   1. Melanie Griffith seems to smoulder with sexuality...
      梅拉妮·格里菲思显得很性感。
   2. His darkly smouldering eyes never left her face.
      他那双性感迷人的黑眼睛一直盯着她的面庞。

1. A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today
   国会周围的一些大楼今天还在冒烟。
2. Whole blocks had been turned into smouldering rubble.
   整座整座的街区都变成了一堆冒着青烟的瓦砾。
3. Baxter smouldered as he drove home for lunch
   巴克斯特开车回家吃午饭的路上，心里一直憋着一团火。
4. That's a lot of people smouldering with resentment
   许多人的心里都在愤愤不平。
5. There is a smouldering anger in the black community.
   在黑人社区里，人们的心中都揣着一团怒火。
6. His darkly smouldering eyes never left her face.
   他那双性感迷人的黑眼睛一直盯着她的面庞。
7. But the heresy continued to smoulder in the West with it's main centres in Gaul and Britain.
   但是异端仍蠢蠢欲动，在西方与它的主要中心在高卢和英国。
8. A new measuring method and a technical scheme are proposed, which estimate the smoulder final point by analysing Binary images of the flame images obtained from the third wild mouth of smoulder furnace.
   提出了一种通过对烟化炉三次风口火焰图象二值化分析处理，判断烟化炉吹炼点的方法和技术思路。
9. Yet a bonfire of regulations would smoulder rather than blaze.
   然而，监管之篝火只会闷然而不是熊熊燃烧。

noun

1. a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame
   1. the smoulder suddenly became a blaze

   Synonym:    smolder

verb

1. burn slowly and without a flame
   1. a smoldering fire

   Synonym:    smolder

2. have strong suppressed feelings

   Synonym:    smolder