a state of agitation or turbulent change or development;
"the political ferment produced new leadership"
"social unrest"
a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
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Fermentation is a biogenic process. 发酵是一种生物化学反应过程。
Sparkling wine needs to undergo a second alcoholic fermentation. 发泡葡萄酒需要二次发酵作用。
He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for research on the fermentation of sugars. 他因在糖发酵上的研究和别人同获1929年的诺贝尔奖。
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