singed 烧毛
- Their electric razor gets hot and now the whole house smells like singed hair.
他们的电动剃须刀热的发烫,整个房间都是烧焦的头发味道。 - 'People are properly skeptical about any proposals out of Washington that speak to cost, because they've been singed by past experience, ' he said.
他说,人们对华盛顿推出的任何与成本有关的议案都有着合理的怀疑,因为他们有前车之鉴。 - After roasting the fish for nearly an hour, the merchant singed the undersides directly on a pile of open coals.
烤了将近一个小时之后,老板把鱼皮那一面直接放到了一堆木炭上烤焦。
Singe \Singe\ (s[i^]nj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Singed}
(s[i^]njd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Singeing} (s[i^]nj"[i^]ng).]
[OE. sengen, AS. sengan in besengan (akin to D. zengen, G.
sengen), originally, to cause to sing, fr. AS. singan to
sing, in allusion to the singing or hissing sound often
produced when a substance is singed, or slightly burned. See
{Sing}.]
1. To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of;
to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or
the skin.
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, . . .
Singe my white head! --Shak.
I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.
--L'Estrange.
2.
(a) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly
over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to
dyeing it.
(b) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or
the like) by passing it over a flame.