a substance that produces a pleasant smell when you burn it, used particularly in religious ceremonies 香(尤指宗教礼仪用的) Incense burned in a corner of the room. 香在房间的一个角落里点着。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + incense- burn
- light
- burn
- stick
- burner
- a scent of incense
- a smell of incense
Word Originnoun Middle English (originally as encense): from Old French encens (noun), encenser (verb), from ecclesiastical Latin incensum ‘something burnt, incense’, neuter past participle of incendere ‘set fire to’, from in- ‘in’ + the base of candere ‘to glow’.