| 释义 |
ablaze, adv. and pred. a.|əˈbleɪz|
Properly phrase a blaze; older form on blaze.
[f. a prep.1 + blaze.]
1. In a blaze, in a flame.
1393Gower Conf. Am. v. 3510. II. 244 That casten fire and flame aboute So that they setten all on blase. 1801Southey Thalaba xii. 15 All ablaze, as if infernal fires Illum'd the world beneath. 1863Tyndall Heat i. 11 Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xi. 71 The sky was ablaze with a mighty mass of flame.
2. fig.
a. In flashing or brilliant colours, gleaming.
1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. iv. iii, What treasures of heart these pages hold, All ablaze with silver and gold. 1878Black Green Past. & Picc. ii. 12 A wilderness of sandy heath and dark-green common now all ablaze with gorse and broom.
b. In the full glow of excitement.
c1840Carlyle, The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. 1859Lytton What will he do? I. 93 The London season was still ablaze. 1879J. D. Long æneid ix. 961 Ablaze with anger at his brother's death. |