cauldron: [13] Etymologically, cauldrons are for heating not food but people. The word comes ultimately from Latin calidārium ‘hot bath’, which was a derivative of the adjective calidus ‘warm’ (related to English calorie, and, by a much more circuitous route, lee ‘sheltered area’ and probably lukewarm). Among the descendants of calidārium were late Latin caldāria ‘pot’, which produced French chaudière (possible source of English chowder) and Vulgar Latin *caldario, which passed into Anglo-Norman, with a suffix indicating great size, as caudron ‘large cooking pot’.
In English, the l was reintroduced from Latin in the 15th century. => calorie, chowder, nonchalant
cauldron (n.)
c. 1300, caudron, from Anglo-French caudrun, Old North French cauderon (Old French chauderon "cauldron, kettle"), from augmentative of Late Latin caldaria "cooking pot" (source of Spanish calderon, Italian calderone), from Latin calidarium "hot bath," from calidus "warm, hot" (see calorie). The -l- was inserted 15c. in imitation of Latin.
实用例句
1. The stadium was a seething cauldron of emotion.
体育场内群情沸腾。
来自《权威词典》
2. Several men were thrown into a boiling cauldron.
几个人被扔进滚水锅中.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. They used the method of removing the burning brands from under the boiling cauldron.
他们使用了釜底抽薪的办法.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. A thin veneer of law and order barely keeps the seething, bubbling cauldron of chaos and anarchy in check.
表面上的几条法令基本控制不住无政府混乱局面的湍流涌动。
来自柯林斯例句
5. Everyone crowded around a huge cauldron of boiling sap.
