FLAME

abbr.

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  • 英英释义

1. N-VAR 火焰;烈焰;火舌 A flame is a hot bright stream of burning gas that comes from something that is burning. 
  • The heat from the flames was so intense that roads melted.

    烈焰的温度很高,连路面都被熔化了。

  • ...a huge ball of flame.

    一大团火焰

2. N-COUNT 谩骂性电子邮件;攻击性电子邮件 A flame is an e-mail message which severely criticizes or attacks someone. 
  • The best way to respond to a flame is to ignore it.

    回应谩骂性电子邮件的最好办法就是置之不理。

  • Flame is also a verb.
    • Ever been flamed?

      收到过带有攻击性的电子邮件吗?

3. VERB (因愤怒而脸)变红,发红,涨红 If someone's face flames, it suddenly looks red, usually because they are angry. 
  • Her cheeks flamed an angry red...

    她气得脸涨红了。

  • Christopher's listening face flamed at the contempt.

    克利斯托弗听到这种蔑视,气得涨红了脸。

4. N-COUNT See also: flaming; old flame; (激情之)火;(怒)火 You can refer to a feeling of passion or anger as a flameof passion or a flameof anger. 
  • ...that burning flame of love.

    那种熊熊燃烧的爱情之火

5. PHRASE 突然猛烈燃烧起来;突然失火 If something bursts into flames or bursts into flame, it suddenly starts burning strongly. 
  • She managed to scramble out of the vehicle as it burst into flames.

    车子一下子起火了,她设法从里面爬了出来。

6. PHRASE 煽动…火焰,激化(通常指不良的情绪) If someone or something fans the flames of a situation or feeling, usually a bad one, they make it more intense or extreme in some way. 
  • He accused the Tories of 'fanning the flames of extremism'.

    他谴责保守党分子“煽动极端主义情绪”。

7. PHRASE 熊熊燃烧;陷入火海;被大火吞没 If something goes up in flames, it starts to burn strongly and is destroyed. 
  • Fires broke out everywhere, the entire city went up in flames.

    到处都燃起了火,整个城市陷入一片火海。

8. PHRASE 起火;失火 Something that is in flames is on fire. 
Noun

1. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke;

  • "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
Verb

1. shine with a sudden light;

  • "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"

2. be in flames or aflame;

  • "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"

3. criticize harshly, on the e-mail