单词 | fiery |
释义 | fiery (faɪəri ) Word forms: fierier, fieriest 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as fiery, you mean that it is burning strongly or contains fire. [literary] A helicopter crashed in a fiery explosion in Vallejo. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You can use fiery for emphasis when you are referring to bright colours such as red or orange. [literary, emphasis] The flowers provided a fiery bright red display. 3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe food or drink as fiery, you mean that it has a very strong hot or spicy taste. [written] ...a fiery combination of chicken, chillies and rice. Synonyms: spicy, hot, pungent, piquant 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone as fiery, you mean that they express very strong emotions, especially anger, in their behaviour or speech. [written] She was a fiery, brilliant and unyielding intellectual and politician. She had a fiery temper and liked to get her own way. Collocations: fiery debate The use of such inflammatory terms, of course, can lead to fiery debate. Times, Sunday Times Years ago mentioning his name ignited fiery debate. canada.com Her response sparked a fiery debate attracting support and criticism. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was receiving national attention for his fiery debates by the early 1840s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was free young people who refused to bow and subsequently exhibited freedom even in the midst of a fiery furnace. Christianity Today And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Christianity Today You have all this talk about 'the good people' and 'the evil people' and the evil people being thrown into the fiery furnace. Christianity Today After the fiery furnace, there needn't always be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Times, Sunday Times He and his companions were cast into and miraculously delivered from the fiery furnace for refusing to worship the king's idol (3:13-30). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you are single, and ready for fiery passion, it could start with a meeting in a fitness centre. The Sun When someone with your dream career appears in your life, it could lead to fiery passion. The Sun He has charm to burn and mixes fiery passion with compassion. The Sun You can put fiery passion in to a relationship that has got too cosy - or find a new love at a sports venue. The Sun There are choices to make between love that grows stronger and a fiery passion that may not last. The Sun I ask her if she regrets her most fiery rhetoric. Times, Sunday Times He lumped them all together in his fiery rhetoric as the 'squalid oligarchy', to the delight of the poverty-stricken million. Times, Sunday Times The fiery rhetoric and defiance of that day was no more. Times, Sunday Times The battle was no isolated event: similar clashes have erupted in recent days all along the 280-mile front, fuelled by fiery rhetoric on both sides. Times, Sunday Times Both generally eschew fiery rhetoric and talk eloquently with their hands. Times, Sunday Times After being arrested for making a fiery speech, he was taken to court and assigned a lawyer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even after a series of fiery speeches calling on the two men to resign, their political rivals stopped short of calling for a vote of no confidence. Times, Sunday Times As a senator he was known for his fiery speeches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He called for volunteers for the civil disobedience movement and delivered fiery speeches. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He had no regional base of support, yet he was an influential leader who expanded the struggle through fiery speeches and articles published. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They just blew everyone away with their sparkly talent, their fiery spirit, their instinctual ability to purr at the right time... Times, Sunday Times All that fiery spirit needed was a moor of her own. Times, Sunday Times It was a glimpse of a fiery spirit trapped in a frozen body. Times, Sunday Times At the moment of his death the passing of his fiery spirit reduced his body to ashes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No fiery spirits to excite. Christianity Today His fiery temper was liable to overspill. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Others in his career had already glimpsed his fiery temper. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He has a fiery temper waiting to be drawn out. The Sun (2012) He had a fiery temper and would explode at the slightest provocation. The Sun (2007) A man will pride himself upon his fiery temper, forgetting that when he was young such outbursts were called tantrums. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement (1972) I'd have thought you experienced enough fiery temperament in your last encounter. Times, Sunday Times He has vision, a deft touch, a physical presence and a fiery temperament. Times, Sunday Times But his public outings have been restricted over the past two weeks amid concern among his aides that his fiery temperament could land him in trouble. Times, Sunday Times But, whether his fiery temperament can be tamed, we'll have to wait and see. The Sun Hot new love links to scarlet shoes and a fiery temperament. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 雄雄燃烧的 Japanese: 猛火の |
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