incandescent

incandescent
adjective
  1. 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
  1. late 18th cent.: from French, from Latin incandescent- 'glowing', from the verb incandescere, from in- (expressing intensive force) + candescere 'become white' (from candidus 'white')
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