gunpowder

In an interview, Mr. Rhatigan said he smelled gunpowder coming from the vehicle and went toward it, thinking it could explode at any second.

他接受采访时说，他闻到车里散发出火药味，朝车子走过去，觉得它随时可能爆炸。

When he opens it, therein is to be found gunpowder and a firelock which sets fire unto it, so he became very injured.

当他打开盒子时，发现里面是火药和将火导向火药的火枪。所以他伤得很重。

What the British did not realise was that Washington simply did not have the gunpowder required to fire the cannons.

英国人不知道的是，华盛顿根本没有火药发炮。

Such a design allows the army castle gunpowder in the Middle Ages yet in a real-war period can be said to be perfect!

如此的设计使得城堡内的军队在火药尚未投入实战的中古时期，可以说是完美的！

Nearby discharge more of a strong 1045, the Great Music has no income, the air has been filled with casual attitudes of gunpowder incense.

近处燃放的可就更强烈了，震耳的大音还没有息，空气里已经散满了幽微的火药香。

The formula of the gunpowder was first discovered by Taoist alchemists of ancient China when trying to make pills of immortality.

火药的配方最初是由中国古代炼丹家在炼制丹药的过程中发现的。

This is like trying to put out a fire with gunpowder.

来破除习惯。这就好比用火药去扑火。

and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

而且，有半年时间，这火药像沙土一样地摆在那儿并没引爆，因为没有火凑近来使它爆炸。

You know there was actually gunpowder in the stab wounds. Didn't anyone else notice?

你看实际上这些刀伤上面还有火药痕迹没人注意到么？

A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile.

加农炮是一种火炮，利用火药或其他易爆燃料，来发投射发射体。

So if you somehow mange to hit or set fire to the ships gunpowder stores the results will be spectacular to say the least.

所以如果你设法打击或者瞄准船身的火药仓库，我至少可以说能看到非常壮观的结果。

It may also be well known that China is the source of many wonderful and useful inventions from spaghetti to gunpowder.

从面条到火药，中国有许多奇妙而实用的发明。

During the next three days Catesby and Fawkes bought large containers of gunpowder and stored them in the cellar.

在接下来的三天，凯次比和福克斯买了火药的大型容器和储存在地窖里。

'After an hour, we could actually smell the gunpowder and hear the shots above us, ' she said.

过了一个小时，我们甚至能闻到硝烟的味道，听到子弹从头顶飞过。

In my own research, I have been able to refute the common notion that the Chinese invented gunpowder but only used it for fireworks.

在我本人的研究中，我反驳一种论调，即中国人发明了火药，但是只是在放焰火的时候才使用。

Since the major raw material of gunpowder niter is as white as snow, Arabians called gunpowder "Chinese Snow" and "Chinese Salt" .

因为制造火药的主要原料硝石洁白如雪，所以火药被阿拉伯人称为“中国雪”和“中国盐”。

It is said that a man named Wan Hoo even tried to fly to the sky by sitting in a chair propelled by gunpowder sticks.

据说有个叫万户的人甚至坐在绑满火药棍的椅子上，试图利用火药的推力飞上天空。

They all proved inefficient, however, and the workmen had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder.

然而，实践证明，这些工具都非常地低效。于是工人们不得不在亚岩层上钻孔，然后使用火药。

Rather than realistic, observational depictions, the tigers convulse across the paper in explosions of pigment and gunpowder.

画中的老虎并非以写实观察的手法描绘，而是透过火药和色块的爆发在纸面上抖动。

As an individual she was negligible; as a symbol she was gunpowder.

作为一个个人来说，她可能微不足道，但她若是作为一种象征，那她就像火药一样。