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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

stove [stəuv]
  1. 1. noun [c] (for cooking) 炉子
  2. 2. noun (for heating) 加热器
  3. 3. noun [US] (top of cooker) 炉

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

stove [stəʊv]
  1. 1. n.[c] 炉子厨灶
    She was standing by the stove, watching the kettle boil.
    她站在炉边,看着水壶的水沸腾
    Dinner was already on the stove.
    已经炉子上了。
  2. 2. n.[c] 火炉,暖炉
    They had a stove in the living room which kept them warm in the night.
    他们起居室生了个炉子以便夜里保暖

Collins English-English Dictionary

stove [stəυv]
  1. 1. n another word for cooker
  2. 2. n any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
  3. 3. vt. [tr] to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
  4. 4. vt. [Scot] to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
  5. 5. vt. [Etymology] Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke

Examples

an economical stove
节省燃料的炉子,经济炉
to feed coal into a stove
给炉子添煤
feed the stove
给炉子加燃料
a length of stove pipe
一节烟筒
a potbellied stove
大肚火炉
heat radiating from a stove
从炉子中散发出来的热
a toy stove
玩具炉
They have a coal stove which is really old.
他们有个非常旧的煤炉。
It took a long time to heat up the stove.
加热炉子花了很长一段时间。
It smells horrible when you burn whole ear corn in the wood stove.
你把玉米穗放到木炉子上烤,味道很难闻。

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