emitting light as a result of being heated 炽热发光的 plumes of incandescent liquid rock. 一柱柱遇热发光的透亮岩石。 ■(of an electric light) containing a filament which glows white-hot when heated by a current passed through it (电灯)白热的,白炽的 ■extremely angry 暴怒的,光火的 I am incandescent at the way the OFT has acted. 我对公平贸易局的做事方式大为光火。 ■of outstanding and exciting quality; brilliant 超群的,杰出的 Mravinsky's incandescent performance of Siegfried's Funeral March. 姆拉温斯基超群的齐格弗里德葬礼进行曲演奏。
派生 incandescence noun incandescently adverb 语源
late 18th cent.: from French, from Latin incandescent- 'glowing', from the verb incandescere, from in- (expressing intensive force) + candescere 'become white' (from candidus 'white')