英语词汇“living flame”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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living flame

living flame n. a burning, visible flame; (now) frequently attributive designating a domestic gas fire that simulates the appearance of a coal or log fire.

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1678 R. Boyle in R. Hooke Lect. & Coll. 63 It might be worth while to try whether his Phosphorus did shine by virtue of a kind of real or (if I may so call it) living flame.

1742 J. Martyn & E. Chambers tr. Philos. Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris II. 387 A living flame..without any matter to sustain it other than what it receives from the situation of the subterraneous places.

1882 R. L. Stevenson Merry Men in Cornhill Mag. July 64 Had the sea been a lake of living flames, he could not have shrunk more panically from its touch.

1966 Guardian 13 Aug. 11/3 The coal-effect fire went like a bomb... The new ‘living flame’ fire.

2004 J. Denby Billie Morgan ii. 9 A big, cushioney red sofa to curl up on in front of the living flame gas fire.

extracted from livingadj.n.¹

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单词	living flame
释义	> as lemmas living flame living flame n. a burning, visible flame; (now) frequently attributive designating a domestic gas fire that simulates the appearance of a coal or log fire. ΚΠ 1678 R. Boyle in R. Hooke Lect. & Coll. 63 It might be worth while to try whether his Phosphorus did shine by virtue of a kind of real or (if I may so call it) living flame. 1742 J. Martyn & E. Chambers tr. Philos. Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. Sci. Paris II. 387 A living flame..without any matter to sustain it other than what it receives from the situation of the subterraneous places. 1882 R. L. Stevenson Merry Men in Cornhill Mag. July 64 Had the sea been a lake of living flames, he could not have shrunk more panically from its touch. 1966 Guardian 13 Aug. 11/3 The coal-effect fire went like a bomb... The new ‘living flame’ fire. 2004 J. Denby Billie Morgan ii. 9 A big, cushioney red sofa to curl up on in front of the living flame gas fire. extracted from livingadj.n.¹ < as lemmas
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