2STRONG FEELING OR BELIEF literary if someone smoulders, or if their feelings smoulder, they have strong feelings that they do not fully express 〔强烈的情绪〕闷在心里,郁积
He sensed a smouldering hostility towards him.
他感觉到有人对他暗怀敌意。
smoulder with
She had spent the evening smouldering with resentment.
她一晚上心里都愤愤不平。
Examples from the Corpus
smoulder• The fire in the chemicalfactory was so intense that it was still smouldering a week later.• Two-year-old Bethany Hudson's alarm started to smoulder and smoke as she lay in her cot.• In areas of shallowcoalseams and dried out peatdeposits, fires can smoulder below ground level for years.• Oh, two rugs on the stonefloor were smouldering but the fire was contained.• The slow burn of resentmentsmoulderedinside her.• In plates around the room were fortunecookies, srnall Buddhas and smouldering joss sticks.• They're less impressive as they smoulder, marmalade-like, over a pair of kohl-black eyebrows.• My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me.• Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair.