vaporous
adjective uk/ˈveɪ.pər.əs/ us/ˈveɪ.pə.rəs/ (also vapory, /ˈveɪ.pər.i/)
(GAS)
由蒸汽组成地;充满蒸汽地
consisting of or filled with vapour (= gas or extremely small drops of liquid that result from the heating of a liquid or solid)
Condensation is the passage of a substance from the vaporous to the liquid state. 凝结是指物质从气状态到液态的过程。
Every six months, the lab will be flushed with vaporous hydrogen peroxide to sterilize it. 每隔6个月，实验室就会充满过氧化氢气体，以进行消毒。
I still have that vapory alcohol taste in my mouth.
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- Below the surface of seven Southwest Virginia counties lies vaporous gold – pools of methane gas worth billions of dollars.
- Summer heat turns car exhaust, industrial emissions and other vaporous toxins into a lung-searing haze.
- Tears like the vaporous steam forming on a cooling glass well up in my eyes.
- Probably it's actually hanging your head over the vaporous fumes that eases the nasal passages.
(NOT CLEAR)
formal or literary无实质内容的，模糊的，缥缈的
not solid or clearly seen
In the painting, the sky seemed to rest lightly on the distant and vaporous outline of the hills. 在这幅画中，天空似乎轻轻地挂在群山遥远而朦胧的轮廓上。
Synonym: vague
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- She describes doom-filled messages hidden beneath old wallpaper and vaporous apparitions lurking in dusty rooms.
- She showed a series of paintings of interiors in which she used thinned paint to create vaporous after-images.
- Like Joyce and Rilke, Proust came of age during that vaporous movement known as symbolism.
- Grand political statements tend towards the vaporous, and the Constitution is no exception.
- Hundreds of companies raised massive amounts of cash for vaporous plans without a penny of earnings, and then crashed.