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kettle

/ˈkɛ.təl/ 名词 B1

中文: 水壶、壶

  1. A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid. · To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.· There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
  2. The quantity held by a kettle.
  3. A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs. · Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
  4. A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
  5. A group of raptors swirling and spiraling upward as they ride a thermal, especially when migrating. · a kettle of hawks
  6. A steam locomotive. (slang)
  7. A kettledrum.
  8. An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

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First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.” And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
《Alice's Adventures in Wonderland》,第40页 · B2
“Well, this is a pretty kettle of fish,” she said wrathfully.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第36页 · C1
Flora Jane, go out and put the kettle on.
《Anne of Green Gables》,第57页 · C1
I declare, Diana, there isn’t more than a cupful in the kettle!
《Anne of Green Gables》,第137页 · C1

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