kiln: [OE] Etymologically a kiln is for ‘cooking’, not for burning or drying. Its distant ancestor was Latin coquīna ‘kitchen’, a derivative of the verb coquere ‘cook’. This produced an unexplained variant culīna (source of English culinary [17]), which was used not only for ‘kitchen’, but also for ‘cooking-stove’. Old English adopted it as cylene, which has become modern English kiln. => cook, culinary, kitchen
kiln (n.)
Old English cyln, cylen "kiln, oven," from Latin culina "kitchen, cooking stove," unexplained variant of coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). Old Norse kylna, Welsh cilin probably are from English.
雙語例句
1. That morning we fired our first kiln of charcoal.
那天上午,我們燒了我們的第一窯木炭.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Bricks are baked in a kiln.
磚是在窯里燒成的.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. Bricks are fired in a kiln.
磚是在窯中燒制的.
來自辭典例句
4. The kiln had been in use for some time and was not in good condition.
該窯使用過一段時間,情況并不好.
來自辭典例句
5. Porcelain from a government kiln is usually more costly.