cauldron

英语

Hungarian goulash in a cauldron

其他形式

• caldron (古旧)
• caudron, cawdron, caadron (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 caudroun，借自古诺曼语 caudron，最终源自晚期拉丁语 caldāria (“锅”)，源自拉丁语 caldus (“热的”)。后添加了“l”来使其偏向拉丁语词形。还见chowder、caldera。

军事义项意译自德语 Kessel，对比英语 kettling。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈkɔːl.dɹən/, (过时) /ˈkəʊl.dɹən/

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名词

cauldron (复数 cauldrons)

1. 大锅

   近义词：kettle

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版于 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]，第 143 页，第 2 列:

     Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

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   • 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Raincoast Books, →ISBN，第 102 页:

     […] I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … […]

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   • 2004, Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, →ISBN:

     Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.

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   • 有关使用本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:cauldron。
2. (军事) 包围，围困

   同类词：kettle

   • 1966, George H. Stein, The Waffen SS: Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945, →ISBN，第 217 页:

     After having defended the constantly shrinking perimeter of their position for over two weeks, the encircled German units in the Cherkassy “cauldron” were ordered to break out.

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   • 2012, Hans Wijers, Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army, →ISBN，第 153 页:

     The cauldron had been formed, and some 2,000 Soviets had been encircled in it; the division estimated this quite a success.

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   • 2016, Paul Robinson, “Explaining the Ukrainian Army’s defeat in Donbass in 2014”, 出自 The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, the West and Russia, →ISBN，第 120 页:

     This could have been avoided had the Ukrainian Army either evacuated the troops in the southern cauldron once it became clear that their position was untenable or reinforced them substantially in order to reopen supply lines.

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衍生词汇

• cauldron arse
• cauldron battle
• cauldron bottom
• cauldronful
• cauldronlike
• witches' cauldron

 

相关词汇

• calorie
• chowder
• caldera
• scald
• coddle

异序词

• Courland, crunodal