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fire sth in a kiln
fire 在这里是“烧制”的意思，常与 in a kiln 搭配使用。
The potter fired the bowls in a kiln.
陶工在窑里烧制那些碗。
窑；炉；干燥炉
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窑；炉；干燥炉
a furnace for firing, burning, or drying things such as porcelain or bricks
The potter fired the bowls in a kiln.
陶工在窑里烧制那些碗。
用于硬化、烧制、煅烧或烘干物品的炉、窑或加热室；例如烧制陶瓷、烤制或保存烟草,或烘干谷物。
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
用于烧制或烘干瓷器、砖等物品的炉窑。
a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
The potter placed the clay pots in the kiln to fire them.
陶工把陶罐放进窑里烧制。
After shaping the bricks, the workers left them in the kiln overnight.
砖块成型后，工人们把它们留在窑里过夜。
They use a special kiln to dry the wood before carving it.
他们用专门的干燥炉烘干木材，然后再进行雕刻。
fire 在这里是“烧制”的意思，常与 in a kiln 搭配使用。
The potter fired the bowls in a kiln.
陶工在窑里烧制那些碗。
a kiln for + 动名词，表示“用于做某事的窑”。
They built a kiln for drying timber.
他们建了一座用来干燥木材的窑。
kiln 作及物动词，表示“在窑中烧制或烘干”，主语通常是人或机构。
The company kilns the tiles on site.
这家公司在现场用窑烧制瓷砖。
被动式 be kilned 常用于说明生产过程中物品被放入窑内处理的步骤。
The bricks are kilned in large batches.
这些砖分批入窑烧制。
Not this
The potter put the clay into kiln.
Use this
The potter put the clay into a kiln.
kiln 是可数名词，单数形式前必须有冠词（a/the）；中文说“放进窑里”不需要冠词，但英语中不能缺少。
Not this
These bricks are fired at a kiln.
Use this
These bricks are fired in a kiln.
表示“在窑内烧制”时，要用 in a kiln 表示在窑的内部；at a kiln 只表示在窑所在的地点，不表示在窑里面。
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砖窑
The village has an old brick kiln that still operates.
村里有一座仍在使用的老砖窑。
陶窑
She fired the vases in her pottery kiln.
她在陶窑里烧制这些花瓶。
石灰窑
The lime kiln was used to produce quicklime.
这座石灰窑曾用于生产生石灰。
窑干的木材
Use kiln-dried wood for the furniture to prevent warping.
制作家具要用窑干的木材，以防变形。
烧窑
The final kiln firing gives the pottery its glossy finish.
最后一次烧窑让陶器有了光泽。
Use kiln naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记忆：kiln 的 n 不发音，读作 kil，想象砖窑里烧出一千（kil）块砖，窑就是烧砖或瓷的炉子。
语域：neutral 常见场景：pottery and ceramics、brickmaking、industrial drying 该词多用于陶瓷、砖瓦、木材干燥等工艺或工业说明的语境，比较常见于书面或专业表述。通常指窑/炉；表示在窑中烧制或烘干时也多见于技术性表述。整体用 neutral 语体较稳妥。
None of these words rhymes with /kɪln/. The final /ln/ cluster is unusual in English. Words that start with /kɪ/ (kill /kɪl/, kilt /kɪlt/, kin /kɪn/) look similar but sound different: kill lacks the final /n/, kilt adds /t/, and kin drops the /l/. Mill /mɪl/ has the same /ɪl/ as kill and also does not rhyme. Film /fɪlm/ and built /bɪlt/ contain a similar /ɪ/ + consonant cluster but end differently.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.