小词详解 | seethe
seethe 英 [siːð] 美 [siːð]
SAT TEM8 GRE
外刊例句
Many Saudis are seething at Muhammad bin Salman’s reforms.
许多沙特人对穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼的改革感到怒火中烧。
——《经济学人》Sometimes, I'm just mad with a kind of seething aimless anger.
有时候，我只是被一种漫无目的翻腾怒火气得发狂。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] (of a liquid) bubble up as a result of being boiled
[动词] （指液体）由于煮沸而起泡
深入解读
Seethe 是一个与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）上周推送的 soothe 较为形似又含义相对的单词。该词源自古英语 seoþan （煮沸，喻指“心烦意乱、忧思”），其本义是作正式用语表示“翻滚、翻腾、冒泡、涌动”，多指液体因煮沸而起泡，以及海浪、水花等像水煮沸那般迅速猛烈地移动，比如：
浪在岩石周围翻腾，太汹涌了，我们无法驾船出海。
The waves seethed around the rocks. They were too turbulent for us to be able to take the boat out.
不过现在更多的是用其比喻义，既可以用来形容大量的人或物在狭小的空间内“密集、云集、充满、遍布”，进行快速或繁忙地移动，常用搭配 seethe with sth 作正式用语使用，比如：
她下面的森林里处处生机勃勃。
The forest below her seethed and teemed with life.那个毫无经验的人在川流不息的人群中东躲西闪。
The man destitute of experience dodged amongst the seething crowds of men.
也可以用来形容人“强压怒火、生闷气、憋气”，即内心充满强烈但无法表达的怒火，常用搭配 seethe with sth 或 seethe at sth ，比如：
我怒火中烧，她却嘲弄地咧着嘴笑。
She grinned derisively while I seethed with rage.那个身材高大的男人因为醉酒及暴力滋事被赶出酒馆。随后他在角落里默默地生闷气。
The hefty man was evicted from the bar for drunken and disorderly behaviour. Then he seethed silently in the corner.
While everyone around him filled their flagons, Harry cleared away his things, seething.
哈利周围的同学都在往短颈瓶里装药剂，他把东西一样样收起来，心里气得不行。
boil: (with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapor bubble: (of a liquid) contain bubbles of air or gas rising to the surface simmer: (of water or food) stay just below the boiling point while being heated