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crucible

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cru·ci·ble /ˈkruːsəbəl/ noun [countable]  HCa container in which substances are heated to very high temperatures 坩埚,熔炉
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crucibleThe Minnesota story highlights the power of performance as a crucible for behavior change.In the center of this shell, above the burner, he placed a fire-clay crucible.At first, they rolled tires from crucible steel, a method predating Bessemer and the other recent innovations.Depending on the furnace type used, the melting of the glass batch was normally carried out in crucibles.At Jalame crucibles must have been necessary to allow the gathering of glass on a blowing iron.It was a sort of devil's crucible, giving off poisonous fumes, just like a bowl of vitriol.New York and Los Angeles have arguably replaced Paris as the crucible of new artistic culture.Paul Celan's answers were formed in the crucible of his imagination and in the circumstances of his life.
nThe CrucibleCrucible, The  na play by Arthur Miller which describes how innocent women were charged with being witches and cruelly punished by a court of law in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play was written in 1953 to show how similar the Salem Witch Trials were to McCarthyism.Origin crucible (1400-1500) Medieval Latin crucibulum, from Old French croiseul
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Crucible
Crucible, The
a play by Arthur Miller which describes how innocent women were charged with being witches and cruelly punished by a court of law in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play was written in 1953 to show how similar the Salem Witch Trials were to McCarthyism.


crucible
crucible /ˈkruːsəbəl, ˈkruːsɪbəl/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1400-1500
 Language: Medieval Latin
 Origin: crucibulum, from Old French croiseul
a container in which substances are heated to very high temperatures


cru·cibleBrE /ˈkruːsɪbl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkruːsɪbl/ 🔊 noun
a pot in which substances are heated to high temperatures, metals are melted, etc. 坩埚;熔炉
(formal or literary) a place or situation in which people or ideas are tested severely, often creating sth new or exciting in the process 熔炉;严峻的考验;磨炼