cauldron

• n. 大汽鍋，大鍋；煮皂鍋

來自拉丁詞calidus, 熱的，加熱，詞源同calorie, 卡路裏。

cauldron

cauldron: [13] Etymologically, cauldrons are for heating not food but people. The word comes ultimately from Latin calidārium ‘hot bath’, which was a derivative of the adjective calidus ‘warm’ (related to English calorie, and, by a much more circuitous route, lee ‘sheltered area’ and probably lukewarm). Among the descendants of calidārium were late Latin caldāria ‘pot’, which produced French chaudière (possible source of English chowder) and Vulgar Latin *caldario, which passed into Anglo-Norman, with a suffix indicating great size, as caudron ‘large cooking pot’.

In English, the l was reintroduced from Latin in the 15th century.
=> calorie, chowder, nonchalant

cauldron (n.)

c. 1300, caudron, from Anglo-French caudrun, Old North French cauderon (Old French chauderon "cauldron, kettle"), from augmentative of Late Latin caldaria "cooking pot" (source of Spanish calderon, Italian calderone), from Latin calidarium "hot bath," from calidus "warm, hot" (see calorie). The -l- was inserted 15c. in imitation of Latin.

1. The stadium was a seething cauldron of emotion.

體育場內群情沸騰。

來自《權威詞典》

2. Several men were thrown into a boiling cauldron.

幾個人被扔進滾水鍋中.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. They used the method of removing the burning brands from under the boiling cauldron.

他們使用了釜底抽薪的辦法.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. A thin veneer of law and order barely keeps the seething, bubbling cauldron of chaos and anarchy in check.

表麵上的幾條法令基本控製不住無政府混亂局麵的湍流湧動。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Everyone crowded around a huge cauldron of boiling sap.

大家都圍擠在一個熬楓漿的大鍋旁.

來自辭典例句