If something smoulders, it burns slowly, producing smoke but not flames.
例句
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。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。
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.
例句
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。That's a lot of people smouldering with resentment...许多人的心里都在愤愤不平。
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.
例句
Melanie Griffith seems to smoulder with sexuality...梅拉妮·格里菲思显得很性感。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。
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. showing scarcely suppressed anger;
"her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel