Torch
[tɔːtʃ] or [tɔrtʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.
(verb.) burn maliciously, as by arson; 'The madman torched the barns'.
弗里达编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
(n.) A flashlight.
整理:梅纳德
同义词及近义词：
n. Flambeau.
杰克校对
解释:
n. a light formed of twisted tow dipped in pitch or other inflammable material: a large candle or flambeau.—ns. Torch′-bear′er; Torch′-dance; Torch′er (Shak.) one who gives light with or as with a torch; Torch′ing a way of catching fish at night with torch-light-and spear; Torch′-light; Torch′-race.—n.pl. Torch′-staves (Shak.) staves for carrying torches.
编辑:马丁
娱乐性解释：
To dream of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement and favorable business. To carry a torch, denotes success in love making or intricate affairs. For one to go out, denotes failure and distress. See Lantern and Lamp.
录入:玛丽
例句:
- Kindle the torch, daughter of Hengist! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Pass that torch slowly along these walls, that I may see them, said Defarge to the turnkey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Learning has very often and very aptly been compared to a torch passed from hand to hand. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I had hastened along one of them for some little distance when suddenly the faint light of the torch disappeared from behind me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It came from a torch in the hand of one of a party of four green warriors, who were coming rapidly down the corridor toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Boats were putting off, torches were lighting up, people were rushing tumultuously to the water's edge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I left a guard to protect this treasure of dust; and ordered perpetual torches to be burned around. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Their only available light for going deeply into the caverns would be torches. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Light this halt of the pilgrims by the wild red flames of cressets and torches, streaming up at intervals from every part of the innumerable throng. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
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