(noun.) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added); 'the slow roasting took several hours'.
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双语例句
The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It's humane too, gen'l'men, acause, even if they've stuck in the chimbley, roasting their feet makes 'em struggle to hextricate theirselves. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
It arrived upon Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's fire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
I watch the fire--and the boiling and the roasting-- When there is any, says Mr. George with great expression. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Look at Ma,' whispered Lavinia to Bella when this was done, and they stood over the roasting fowls. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
E is a crown-wheel escapement--like that in a bottle roasting-jack--which turns A alternately to the left and right, thus causing the hand to traverse the 13 cards. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.