amorce

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əˈmɔːs/    美 /əˈmoɹs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hint about the future; an instance of foreshadowing.
    — The anti-Americanism — or anti-Carterism, because Schmidt is basically pro-American — was in a way worrying, although if the dollar crisis is such an amorce for economic and monetary union, I am prepared, up to a point, to go along with it.
  2. A percussion cap or detonator.
    — In March Messrs. Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., imported without a licence a consignment of 500 imitation cigarette cases, each containing a roll of amorces arranged in such a manner that an amorce was fired each time the case was opened, and the goods were placed under dentention by the Customs.

词形变化

amorces plural

词源

Borrowed from French amorce.
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