fume

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fume /fjuːm/ verb

1 ANGRY[intransitiveI, transitiveT] to be angry about something （对…）生气

fume at/over/about

She sat in the car, silently fuming about what he’d said.

她坐在车里一声不响，为他刚才的话生着闷气。

‘You’ve no right to be here, ’ he fumed.

“你没有权利待在这里。”他气呼呼地说道。

2. SMOKE[intransitiveI] to give off smoke or gases 冒烟；冒气

Examples from the Corpus

fume• A crucial document disappeared for years while frustrated investigators fumed.• Jody makes sure everyone gets there on time, but she fumes about the early hour to anyone who will listen.• Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office.• It will do no good at all if it leaves you fuming internally for the rest of the day.• I stood there fuming until I was noticed.

fume at/over/about• David Ashworth Parents fuming over bus posters A COUNCIL-owned bus company has been attacked for carrying tobacco advertising on school buses.• He was fuming about it when Yolanda hopped into his car, the sickly sweet stink of her perfume almost choking him.• Not only will the situation which upsets you continue, but you will continue to do yourself harm by fuming about it.• Yeltsin fumed at questions of whether the nuclear summit and surrounding meetings were tailored to his political ambitions.• It left Mr Schrempp fuming at the betrayal.• Jody makes sure everyone gets there on time, but she fumes about the early hour to anyone who will listen.• Still fuming at the insensitive arrogance of the man she turned and left the office.• Also, the Tigers are fuming about their controversial loss to Arkansas last year.

Origin fume

(1300-1400) French fumer, from Latin fumus “smoke”

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