incense
incense 英 [ˈɪnsens] 美 ['ɪnsens]
vt. 向…焚香；使…发怒 n. 香；奉承 vi. 焚香
进行时:incensing 过去式:incensed 过去分词:incensed 第三人称单数:incenses 名词复数:incenses
- Incense means both "to make angry" and a stick that burns slowly and emits a strong smell. If your new college roommate burns incense in your tiny dorm room, you might get incensed and storm out.
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- vt. 向…焚香；使…发怒
- n. 香；奉承
- vi. 焚香
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1. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
他们要把香焚在你面前，把全牲的燔祭献在你的坛上。
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2. Some stood undisturbed on the hillside with burnt incense scattered before them on charred patches of ground.
有些在山坡上没受侵扰，墓前面一块块烧焦的地上散落着烧过的香。
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3. As a choir sang, he sprinkled incense on the altar before opening the Mass with the traditional wish for peace in Latin.
唱诗班演唱的时候，教皇把香撒在圣坛上，然后用拉丁文念了传统的和平祷文，开始主持弥撒。
- incense (n.) late 13c., "gum or other substance producing a sweet smell when burned," from Old French encens (12c.), from Late Latin incensum "burnt incense," literally "that which is burnt," noun use of neuter past participle of Latin incendere "set on fire" (see incendiary). Meaning "smoke or perfume of incense" is from late 14c.
- incense (v.1) early 15c., encensen "to arouse, inspire," from Old French incenser, from Latin incensare, frequentative of incendere "set on fire," figuratively "incite, enrage, rouse" (see incendiary). From mid-15c. as "to provoke, anger." Literal sense "to heat, make (something) hot" is from c. 1500 in English but is rare.
- incense (v.2) "to offer incense, perfume with incense, fumigate (something) with incense," late 13c., encensen, incensen, from incense (n.) or from Old French encenser (11c.), or directly from Medieval Latin incensare.
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