大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 afire


释义：

afire adj. （诗、文）燃烧着的；着火的
adv. （诗、文）燃烧着地；着火地

例句：



The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire.

我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈裂了新教堂大院里的一棵树，使建筑着了火。



They looked at the ship afire.

他们望着燃烧中的船。



The clinic was set afire.

诊所被人放火了。



He lit afire to scare off the wolves.

他点起火把狼吓跑。



Sydney is afire with Olympic enthusiasm.

悉尼全城燃烧着奥林匹克的热情。



On their way home, they saw a house afire.

在回家的路上，他们看到一座失火的房子。



Focused light rays can set something afire.

聚焦的光线能把某些东西点燃。



Peter's heart was afire with his colorful life.

彼得的心因为丰富多彩的生活燃烧着。



They saw a house afire while on their way home.

在回家的路上，他们见到一所失火的房子。



He discovered, by some accident, that flesh roasted in front of afire tasted better.

他意外地发现，在火前烤过的肉尝起来更好。



You have missed all my history lectures, and were caught lighting afire in the quad.

我的历史课你总是缺席，你在院落里纵火被抓。



When afire like this happens, it is usually caused by an internal short in the battery.

当一个上述的火灾发生时，通常是由于电池内部的短路引起。



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。



We can only guess how Man first learned that afire was useful and what uses he made of it.

我们只能猜测人类起初是如何了解火的，以及他们生火是用作什么的。



Niu Wang Temple from years of aging wiring causes afire, resulting in wooden structure on fire.

牛王寺由于常年电线老化原因起火，导致木质结构着火。



Then the wood was set afire, a fire that roughened and darkened the ribbed surfaces of the concrete.

然后是木材着火，大火，粗糙和黝黑的肋表面的混凝土。



A character can use the weapon afire ability at will as long as her power point reserve is 9 or more.

灵能点馀量不少于9的操焰者可以随意使用“火焰武器”能力。



I still have to blow the fire hotter, "he cried, then pumped the bellows again, until all her rags were all afire."

说完他又重新拉风箱，把老妇人的破衣服都烧了个精光。



Afire with annihilating invective; a devastating portrait of human folly; to compliments inflated I've a withering reply - W. S. Gilbert.

因恶语谩骂而怒火中烧的；荒唐人类的讽刺像；对夸张的恭维我都给以讽刺的回答。



Something told us that the war was true and awful, such as whistling bombs, afire town, escaped people, broken natural sceneries and endless hatred and conflicts.

吼怒的炮弹，在一片火海中的城镇，避祸的人群，被毁坏的天然风景，以及无尽的愤恨和争端。



He says the island was hit by an initial barrage of 15 shells, then there was a break of 40 minutes before the shelling resumed, setting afire and destroying many homes.

他说这个岛遭受了一场初始令人厌烦的15贝壳、有突破的40分钟后重新恢复，设置炮轰的操焰者和破坏许多人家。



But if I say, "I will not mention him orspeak any more in his name, " his word is in my heart like a fire, afire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

我若说：“我不再提耶和华，也不再奉他的名讲论，”我便心里觉得似乎有烧着的火，闭塞在我骨中，我就含忍不住，不能自禁。



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。