foam的解释

A：What kind of permanent would you like to have?
      您想烫什么样的发型？

B：What kinds do you have?
      你们能烫什么样的发型？

A：Oh, we have quite a varity:regular, cold perm, straight perm, pin curl and foam.
      啊，我们能烫很多种类：普通的、汽烫、直发烫、卷发和泡沫烫。

B：Last time I tried a pin curl perm and a foam permanent. Set the wave a little looser than usual, please.
      我上次躺了卷发，觉得太卷了。今天不妨试试泡沫烫。你把波浪弄的比以往松些。

1. 泡沫;气泡
    Foam consists of a mass of small bubbles that are formed when air and a liquid are mixed together.

    e.g. The water curved round the rocks in great bursts of foam.
           水流撞击岩石，产生大量泡沫。

2. 泡沫剂;泡沫产品
    Foam is used to refer to various kinds of manufactured products which have a soft, light texture like a thick liquid.

foam

    e.g. ...shaving foam.
           剃须泡沫

3. 泡沫橡胶;海绵式橡胶
    Foam or foam rubber is soft rubber full of small holes which is used, for example, to make mattresses and cushions.

    e.g. ...modern three-piece suites filled with foam rubber...
           有泡沫橡胶填充物的现代家具三件套
    e.g. We had given him a large foam mattress to sleep on.
           我们给了他一张大海绵床垫用来睡觉。

4. (液体)产生泡沫，起沫
    If a liquid foams, it is full of small bubbles and keeps moving slightly.

    e.g. I let the water run into it and we watched as it foamed and bubbled.
           我把水引进去，然后我们看着它起沫、冒泡。
    e.g. ...ravines with foaming rivers rushing through them.
           泛着白沫的河水奔腾而过的沟壑

5. 大怒;暴怒;大发雷霆
    If you say that someone is foaming at the mouth, you mean that they are very angry.

    e.g. Stewart was foaming at the mouth about an incident the previous afternoon.
           斯图尔特正为头天下午的事件而大发脾气。