a small wire or device inside a piece of electrical equipment that breaks and stops the current if the flow of electricity is too strong 熔断器；保险丝 Extra ExamplesTopics Engineeringc2Make sure that the correct fuse is fitted. 确保安装了正确的保险丝。 When the machine was switched on it blew a fuse. 启动机器时保险丝烧断了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- 5-amp
- 10-amp
- 13-amp
- …
- change
- replace
- blow
- …
- blow
- wire
- box
- (North American English also fuze)
a long piece of string or paper that is lit to make a bomb or a firework explode 导火线；导火索 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- short
- long
- slow
- …
- set
- light
- (North American English also fuze)
a device that makes a bomb explode when it hits something or at a particular time 引信；信管；雷管 He set the fuse to three minutes. 他把引信设定为三分钟起爆。 The bombs inside were on a one-hour fuse. 炸弹内装有一小时起爆的引信。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- short
- long
- slow
- …
- set
- light
Word Originnoun sense 1 late 16th cent.: from Latin fus- ‘poured, melted’, from the verb fundere. noun senses 2 to 3 mid 17th cent.: from Italian fuso, from Latin fusus ‘spindle’.
Idioms
blow a fuse
- (informal)
to get very angry 大怒；暴跳如雷
have/be on a short fuse
to tend to get angry quickly and easily 动辄发火；性情暴躁；脾气不好