express vehement protest 严词谴责,强烈抗议 all fulminated against the new curriculum. 大家都猛烈抨击新的课程设置。 ■(poetic/literary)explode violently or flash like lightning (诗/文)爆炸;如闪电般闪光 thunder fulminated around the house. 在房子周围雷声轰鸣。 ■[usu. as adj.](Medicine)(fulminating)(of a disease or symptom) develop suddenly and severely (医)(疾病,症状)暴发 fulminating appendicitis. 暴发性阑尾炎。
noun
(Chemistry)a salt or ester of fulminic acid (化)雷酸盐
语源
late Middle English: from Latin fulminat- 'struck by lightning', from fulmen, fulmin- 'lightning'. The earliest sense (derived from medieval Latin fulminare) was 'denounce formally', later 'issue formal censures' (originally said of the Pope). A sense 'emit thunder and lightning', based on the original Latin meaning, arose in the early 17th cent., and hence 'explode violently' (late 17th cent.)