smelt

英 [smelt]

美 [smelt]

v.  熔炼，提炼(金属)
smell的过去分词和过去式

现在分词：smelting　过去分词：smelted　过去式：smelted　复数：smelts　第三人称单数：smelts　

BNC.24671 / COCA.23291

牛津词典

verb

• 熔炼，提炼（金属）
  to heat and melt ore (= rock that contains metal) in order to obtain the metal it contains
  1. a method of smelting iron
     一种炼铁方法

柯林斯词典

• 
  Smeltis a past tense and past participle ofsmell.
• VERB 熔炼;冶炼
  Tosmelta substance containing metal means to process it by heating it until it melts, so that the metal is extracted and changed chemically.
  1. Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal.
     达比一直在寻找改善铁质的方法，他猛然想到可以不用木炭熔炼，而改用焦炭。

英英释义

noun

• small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
• small cold-water silvery fish

verb

• extract (metals) by heating

双语例句

• In one test people reduced their chocolate consumption by more than half if they smelt a fresh orange first.
  在一项测试中，人们在闻了新鲜橙子的味道后就减少了一大半的巧克力摄入量。
• If ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.
  如果有人曾闻过热病和痢疾的气味，那就只有这可恶的锚地了。
• The air, too, smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.
  这里的空气也比下面沼泽地旁清新多了。
• Tin is a comparatively easy metal to smelt.
  锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
• I smelt out a secret.
  我觉察到了一件秘密。
• The thin man gave me a cigar, which I smelt and then put in my pocket.
  那个瘦点的给了我一枝雪茄，我闻了闻就放进口袋。
• Try some more. I smelt the savor in the air.
  多试些。我闻到空气的香味了。
• She smelt something burning and saw smoke rising.
  她闻到有东西在燃烧并看到有烟升起来了。
• Somehow the place even smelt wonderfully nostalgic.
  不知为什么，这个地方竟透出一种浓郁的怀旧气息。
• Have you smelt that cheese? It's bad.
  你闻过那奶酪了吗？好像变质了。