ferment
ferment 英 [fəˈment] 美 [fərˈment]
n. 发酵；酵素；动乱 vi. 发酵；动乱 vt. 使发酵；酝酿；使动乱
进行时:fermenting 过去式:fermented 过去分词:fermented 第三人称单数:ferments 名词复数:ferments
- The word ferment means a commotion or excitement. Consider that the fermentation that turns juice or grain into alcohol is the result of the agitated development of bacteria, and then you can better appreciate the word's meaning.
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- n. 发酵；酵素；动乱
- vi. 发酵；动乱
- vt. 使发酵；酝酿；使动乱
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1. The wine is beginning to ferment.
葡萄酒开始发酵了。
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2. In fact, the new yeast strain simultaneously converts cellobiose (a precursor of glucose) and xylose to ethanol just as quickly as it can ferment either sugar alone.
这种新酵母可以同时将葡萄糖的前身纤维二糖和木糖转化为乙醇，其速度与单独发酵任一糖类一样快。
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3. To stretch the skin, Jim says, you had to wet it, scrape all the hair and the fat off and ferment it in moose brains.
吉姆告诉我们说，要把兽皮张开，必须先要把皮张弄湿，刮去兽毛和脂肪，然后加入鹿脑让其发酵。
- ferment (n.) early 15c., from Middle French ferment (14c.), from Latin fermentum "leaven, yeast; drink made of fermented barley;" figuratively "anger, passion" (see ferment (v.)). Figurative sense of "anger, passion, commotion" in English is from 1670s.
- ferment (v.) late 14c. (intransitive), from Old French fermenter (13c.) and directly from Latin fermentare "to leaven, cause to rise or ferment," from fermentum "substance causing fermentation, leaven, drink made of fermented barley," perhaps contracted from *fervimentum, from root of fervere "to boil, seethe" (from PIE root *bhreu- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn"). Transitive use from 1670s. Figurative use from 1650s. Related: Fermented; fermenting.
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