喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/vɑːlˈkeɪnoʊ/ · /vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/火山

    a mountain with a large hole at the top, through which very hot liquid rock, called lava, is sometimes pushed out from deep under the ground.

    示範例句 · Example

    In science class we learned how a volcano sends smoke and hot rock high into the sky.

    逐字在自然課我們學到一座火山如何把煙和熱的岩石送到高高的天空中。

    volcano 指的是那座山本身——一座頂端有個大洞的山，很燙的液態岩石（lava，岩漿）有時候會從那個洞被推出來。可以想成「一座會打開的山」：平常安安靜靜跟別的山一樣，只有打開的時候才看得出它是 volcano。英文常用三個形容詞描述它現在的狀態：active（隨時可能噴）、dormant（很久沒噴了）、extinct（不會再噴了）。

    常見搭配

    • a volcano erupts

      火山噴發

      the volcano sends smoke, fire, and hot rock into the sky

      That volcano last erupted fifty years ago.

    • an active volcano

      活火山

      a volcano that may erupt at any time

      Guides take visitors close to the active volcano, but never to the top.

    • a dormant volcano

      休眠火山

      a volcano that has not erupted for a long time

      Volcanoes can stay dormant for hundreds of years.

    • an extinct volcano

      死火山

      a volcano that does not erupt any more

      The town is built at the foot of an extinct volcano.

    • the eruption of a volcano

      火山的噴發

      the time when a volcano pushes out lava, smoke, and ash

      The eruption of the volcano changed the shape of the island.

    • climb a volcano

      爬火山

      to walk up a volcano to reach the top

      We started early because it takes six hours to climb the volcano.

    意思相近

    mountainpeak

core核心畫面

You can picture a volcano as a mountain with an opening at its top — a hole that goes all the way down to where rock is hot enough to flow. Most of the time nothing happens; then the pressure below finds this one weak point, and what was sealed under the ground comes up through it.

一座山，山頂上開了一個洞，而這個洞不是淺淺的凹陷，是一路通到地底深處、岩石熱到會流動的地方。平常它看起來就是座普通的山，安安靜靜；可是底下的壓力一旦找到這個出口，本來封在地下的東西就從這裡衝上來。所以 volcano 的重點不只是「山」，而是「有出口的山」——一個把地底和地面接起來的洞。也正因為這個「憋著、然後從一個口爆出來」的樣子，英文裡常拿火山來形容人的情緒。

同家族的字

複數 volcanoes / volcanos

意思相近

mountainpeak

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Volcanoname

  • 1

    A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States.

volcanonoun/vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/

  • 1

    A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

    • Iceland's volcanoes are among the most active on Earth.
  • 2

    A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

volcanoverb/vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/

  • 1

    to erupt; to burst forth

    • She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again
    • Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

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