a space surrounded on all sides by walls and a roof for heating metal or glass to very high temperatures 熔炉 Extra ExamplesThe furnaces burned fiercely. 这些炉子烧得正旺。 There was enough coal to fire the furnaces. 煤足够炉子烧的。 Emissions from power stations and industrial furnaces pollute the atmosphere. 发电站和工业炉的排放物污染了大气。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blazing
- fiery
- hot
- …
- stoke
- fire
- burn
- (especially North American English) (also boiler British and North American English)
a container in which water is heated to provide hot water and heating in a building or to produce steam in an engine 锅炉；汽锅 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- coal
- electric
- gas
- …
- install
- replace
- room
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French fornais(e), from Latin fornax, fornac-, from fornus ‘oven’.