ferment
v[I, Tn]
1 (make sth) change chemically through the action of organic substances (esp yeast) (使某物)发酵
Fruit juices ferment if they are kept a long time. 果汁放置日久会发酵.
When wine is fermented it gives off bubbles of gas. 酒发酵时会放出气泡.
2 (fig 比喻) excite; stir up 激起; 煽动
ferment trouble among the factory workers 在工人中引起骚动.
ferment n
1 [C] substance, eg yeast, that causes sth to ferment 发酵剂; 酵母.
2 [U] (esp political or social) excitement or unrest (尤指政治或社会方面的)动荡不安
The country was in (a state of) ferment. 这个国家处於动荡不安之中.
Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?