vapour: [14] Latin vapor meant ‘steam, heat’. English acquired it via Old French vapour. The now archaic use of the plural, vapours, for a ‘fit of fainting, hysteria, etc’, which dates from the 17th century, was inspired by the notion that exhalations from the stomach and other internal organs affected the brain. Vapid [17] comes from Latin vapidus ‘insipid’, which may have been related to vapor. => vapid
vapour (n.)
chiefly British English spelling of vapor; see -or.
雙語例句
1. A cloud is a mass of vapour in the sky.
云是天空中的水汽團(tuán)塊.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.
云是由大氣中的水蒸氣凝結(jié)成的.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. Clouds are formations of condensed water vapour.
云是由凝聚的水蒸氣構(gòu)成的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. If it were not for the vapour in the air, there would be no dew.
如果空氣中沒有水氣, 就沒有露水.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.