afire 英 [ə'faɪə]   美 [əˈfaɪr]

afire

afire  英 [ə'faɪə] 美 [əˈfaɪr]

adj. 燃烧的;着火的  adv. 燃烧着;着火地 

The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire. 结肠在燃烧,就像是一捆极干燥的干草被浸到汽油里然后被点燃。
When she's not setting the tabloids afire with her new hairdos, Watson say she's loving her sophmore year at Brown University. 各路小报对于她的新发型“大做文章”并未影响到艾玛在布朗大学享受大二的校园时光。

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  • adj. 燃烧的;着火的
  • adv. 燃烧着;着火地
  • 1. The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.

    结肠在燃烧,就像是一捆极干燥的干草被浸到汽油里然后被点燃。

  • 2. When she's not setting the tabloids afire with her new hairdos, Watson say she's loving her sophmore year at Brown University.

    各路小报对于她的新发型“大做文章”并未影响到艾玛在布朗大学享受大二的校园时光。

  • 3. The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.

    我们出生的那个晚上,雷暴劈倒了新教堂大院里的一棵树,整个建筑着了火,最后只剩下了烧焦了的尖塔裂片和冒着烟的教堂板凳。

  • afire (adv., adj.) "on fire," c. 1200, afure, from a- (1) "on" + fire (n.). Figurative use by late 14c.
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