If something smoulders, it burns slowly, producing smoke but not flames.
例句
A number of buildings around the Parliament were still smouldering today...國會周圍的一些大樓今天還在冒煙。Whole blocks had been turned into smouldering rubble.整座整座的街區都變成了一堆冒著青煙的瓦礫。
VERB
(憤怒、仇恨等)郁積，憋在心里
If a feeling such as anger or hatred smoulders inside you, you continue to feel it but do not show it.
例句
Baxter smouldered as he drove home for lunch...巴克斯特開車回家吃午飯的路上，心里一直憋著一團火。That's a lot of people smouldering with resentment...許多人的心里都在憤憤不平。
VERB
性感迷人
If you say that someone smoulders, you mean that they are sexually attractive, usually in a mysterious or very intense way.
例句
Melanie Griffith seems to smoulder with sexuality...梅拉妮·格里菲思顯得很性感。His darkly smouldering eyes never left her face.他那雙性感迷人的黑眼睛一直盯著她的面龐。
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. showing scarcely suppressed anger;
"her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Hensel