女神殿

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–verb (used with object) 
1. to burn 
or 
reduce to charcoal (木炭): The fire charred the paper.  

2. to burn slightly; scorch: The flame charred the steak.  

–verb (used without object) 
3. to become charred.
–noun 
4. a charred material or surface.
5. charcoal.  
6. a superior carbon-rich fuel, a by-product of the conversion of coal into gaseous or liquid fuel. 

–noun
any trout (鱒魚) of the genus Salvelinus (or Cristovomer), esp. the Arctic char. 

–noun 
1. a charwoman. (打雜的女佣人)
2. a task, esp. a household chore.
3. chars, odd jobs, esp. of housework, for which one is paid by the hour or day. 

–verb (used without object) 
4. to work at housecleaning by the day or hour; hire oneself out to do odd jobs.
–verb (used with object) 
5. to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair. 

Also, chare. 


　
[Timed] for the centennial of Upton Sinclair's classic muckraker The Jungle, as well as Thanksgiving, Fast Food Nation opens with a slow zoom into the fresh-charred heart of a greasy, gristle-flecked beef patty. 

gristle
軟骨
fleck
斑點,雀斑


cf. decimate
desiccate
What [rescues] his best films [from] desiccation is the playfulness behind the theorizing 
parch
Walking in the [sun] parched his throat.
A staple of the Indian diet was parched [corn]. 
The obsessive central love story here is [repressed] on all levels, which serves to [parch] the film more than [intensify] it.
dank
damp often chilly
a dank [cellar]
Inflict