關鍵字彙：
churn/ condense/ dilute/ emanate from/ emit/ evaporate/ exude/ froth/ gush/ limpid/ lubricate/ lukewarm/ ooze/ pall/ puddle/ seep/ seethe/ slime/ smog/ sooty/ spout/ spurt/ tepid/ thaw/ thermal/ trickle/ turbid/ vapor
1. 因溫度突然改變等所產生之懸浮或散布在空氣中的蒸氣、霧氣或靄氣叫vapor：
•A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.
•A thin coat of vapor began to collect on the windshield.
•Strange vapors rose from the dark lake.
2. 在較不正式的用法中，「泡沫」可用froth：
•There is froth at the corners of the dog's mouth; can it be mad?
•He blew away the froth on the glass of beer.
3. 液體的「慢慢流動」用exude或ooze，假如強調「慢慢滲透」進不該流進去的地方，用seep：
•Sweat exudes through the pores.
•Blood still oozed from his wound.
•Water has seeped into the house through the walls and roof.
•Pesticides are seeping out of farmland into the water supply.
4. 液體「一滴一滴慢慢流下」叫trickle；「奔流」可用gush、spout或spurt：
•The young girl was so moved by the sentimental story that tears kept trickling down her cheeks.
•Oil gushed (out) from the hole in the tanker.
•The stream gushes forth from the rock.
•Blood was gushing from her nose.
•His arm gushed blood where the knife had gone in.
•Lava spouted from the volcano.
•Water is spurting from the broken pipe.
5. 把液體「稀釋」，用dilute：
•He diluted the paint with oil.
•The water will dilute the wine.
•Please dilute the acid before you use it.
6. 「潤滑」用lubricate：
•It's been a long time since the car was last lubricated.
7. 描寫液體如沸騰般「翻騰」用seethe，它經常以seething的形式呈現；「劇烈翻攪」液體使其如沸騰一般，用churn：
•She was looking down into the seething sea around the rocks.
•The ship churned the water up as it passed.
•The sea was churned up by heavy winds.
•My stomach started to churn as soon as we left port.
8. 指溫泉等「讓人產生暖熱感覺的」，用thermal；「微溫的」，用tepid或lukewarm，但lukewarm的溫度有時或許給人不太舒服的感覺：
•The natives discovered that the hot springs gave excellent thermal baths and began to develop their community as a health resort.
•Some people like to take a cool shower; other, a tepid bath.
•This soup's lukewarm; let me heat it for a while.
9. 「清澈的」叫limpid（文言用語）；「渾濁的」叫turbid：
•Her eyes are like limpid pools.
•A limpid stream runs through his property.
•The water became turbid after the children had waded through it.
10. 「泥巴」、「泥濘」叫slime，滿是汙水的小水坑叫puddle：
•A layer of slime was formed in the bottom of the pool.
•The heavy rain last night left puddles in the road.
11. 「凝結」叫condense；「蒸發」叫evaporate：
•Water vapor in the air condenses into fog.
•The sun will evaporate the mist.
12. 氣體、光等「從…發出」用emanate from；某源頭「放射出」煙霧、光、熱、 聲音、味道等用emit：
•A strong odor of sulphur emanated from the spring.
•The volcano emits smoke and ashes once in a while.
•The chimney emitted a cloud of smoke.
13. 「煙霧」、「黑煙」可用pall或smog，但pall通常以a pall of或palls of的形式出現，呈現一種煙霧瀰漫的厚重感。另外，像是蓋滿黑煙那樣「灰蒙蒙的」可用sooty：
•The city sky was overcast with a pall of smoke.
•Palls of smoke obscured our view.
•The smog hanging over the city sky is a menace to our health.
•The sooty buildings are eyesores to the city.
14. 固體「融化」可用thaw：
•If the weather keeps being warm, it will thaw the ice very soon.
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