| 词汇 | burn |
| 释义 | verbnoun A welcoming fire was burning in the fireplace. 壁炉里燃烧着暖融融的炉火。 Fires were burning all over the city. 全城处处燃烧着大火。 By nightfall the whole city was burning. 到黄昏时，全城已是一片火海。 Two children were rescued from the burning car. 两名儿童从燃烧着的车中被救了出来。 The smell of burning rubber filled the air. 空气中弥漫着橡胶燃烧的气味。 burn (somebody/something) to burn waste paper/dead leaves焚烧废纸／枯树叶 All his belongings were burnt in the fire. 他所有的财物都在大火中付之一炬。 The cigarette burned a hole in the carpet. 香烟把地毯烧了个洞。 The house was burnt to the ground (= completely destroyed). 那座房子彻底焚毁了。 The house burned to the ground. 房子被大火夷为平地。 Ten people burned to death in the hotel fire. 旅馆火灾中有十人被烧死。 burn somebody/something + adj. His greatest fear is of being burnt alive. 他最怕的是被活活烧死。 a furnace that burns gas/oil/coke煤气／煤油／焦炭熔炉 (figurative) Some people burn calories (= use food to produce energy) faster than others. 有些人热量消耗得比其他人快。 Which fuel burns most efficiently? 哪种燃料燃烧效果最佳？ I can smell something burning in the kitchen. 我闻到厨房里有东西烧焦了。 burn something Sorry—I burnt the toast. 抱歉，我把面包烤煳了。 My skin burns easily (= in the sun). 我的皮肤容易晒伤。 burn somebody I got badly burned by the sun yesterday. 我昨天严重晒伤。 burn something The soup's hot. Don't burn your mouth. 汤很热，别烫了嘴。 burn yourself I burned myself on the stove. 我被炉子烫了。 Your forehead's burning. Have you got a fever? 你的前额很烫，你发烧了吗？ Her cheeks burned with embarrassment. 她羞得面颊发烫。 Lights were burning upstairs, but no one answered the door. 楼上亮着灯，但叫门没人回应。 burn with something to be burning with rage/ambition/love满怀强烈的仇恨／远大的抱负／炽热的爱 burn to do something He was burning to go climbing again. 他渴望再去爬山。 The car was burning down the road. 汽车沿着公路疾驰而去。 So you did it just to burn me? 这么说，你那样做只是为了气我？ burn something The project burns £2 million a year in contractor costs. burn through something Schweitzer said the state has already burned through cash reserves set aside for this purpose. Think carefully before you resign—you don't want to burn your bridges. 辞职前要三思，你得给自己留条退路。 He got his fingers badly burnt dabbling in the stock market. 他糊里糊涂地进入股票市场，结果赔了老本。 By the time I got home, the cake was burnt to a cinder.His career crashed and burned after he threatened a journalist. The stock markets are getting ready to crash and burn. He continued to crash and burn through personal controversies that included driving drunk. ‘I bumped into your ex-wife last night.’ ‘I thought I could feel my ears burning!’ |
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