• n. 木炭；炭筆
• vt. 用木炭畫（過去式charcoaled，過去分詞charcoaled，現(xiàn)在分詞charcoaling，第三人稱單數(shù)charcoals）

char, 來自PIE*sker, 彎，轉(zhuǎn)，變化，詞源同ring, curve .即變成炭的。

charcoal

charcoal: [14] The words char and charcoal are related, but not in the way commonsense might lead one to suppose: for the verb char [17], originally apparently a charcoal-burner’s term, appears to derive from charcoal. So etymologically, the element char has nothing to do with ‘burning’. There are two main suggestions as to charcoal’s origins: firstly that it comes from Old French charbon ‘charcoal’ (related to English carbon); and secondly that it represents the now obsolete English verb chare (see CHARWOMAN), which in Old English times (cerran) meant ‘turn’.

On the basis of this theory, the etymological meaning of the word would be ‘turning into charcoal’ (for in Old English, coal meant ‘charcoal’ as well as ‘coal’).

charcoal (n.)

mid-14c., charcole, first element is either Old French charbon "charcoal," or, on the current theory, obsolete charren "to turn" (from Old English cerran) + cole "coal," thus, "to turn to coal."

1. We need to get some more charcoal for the barbecue.

我們燒烤需要更多的碳.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. That morning we fired our first kiln of charcoal.

那天上午,我們燒了我們的第一窯木炭.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. They broiled turkey over a charcoal flame.

他們在木炭上烤火雞.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The water was filtered through charcoal.

這水是用木炭過濾過的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Charcoal is used to filter water.

木炭是用來過濾水的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》