simmer是什么意思

双语用例

• The issue has been simmering for nearly two decades.

• Perhaps, they feel that it does not matter that within this country there is deep resentment simmering below the surface.

• The issue has been brought to the boil by recent events, but it has been simmering for quite a long time.

• I see no reason why we cannot reopen negotiations in a short time, after everything has simmered down.

• However, the issue has been simmering for quite a few years, and long before the double tax convention ever saw the light of day.

• However, a short time afterwards the indignation simmered down.

• We are also leaving a dispute which has been simmering for sixty years and could break out after independence.

• They also said that the increasingly poor handling of the refugee crisis had exacerbated the simmering conflict in the area, with predictable consequences.