| 单词 | long-burning |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong-burning long-burning adj. ΚΠ 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxviii. 403 In his eldest yeares he gave himselfe, with so ernest a longing to learne the Greeke tong, as if it had bin to quench a long burning thirst. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. i. 264 Like those long burning Lamps which have been discovered in old monuments. 1885 L. P. Johnson Sir Walter Raleigh in Tower 11 A world Starred with long burning splendours. 1937 Life 26 July 88/1 (advt.) Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed—a cool, long-burning tobacco preferred by seasoned pipe smokers. 1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Nov. a1 What tore him up was not sadness for the dead but a long-burning rage. 2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 12/2 We can expect a slow, insidious, long-burning fuse of fear, terror, and paralysis that the Taliban have lit and that the state is unable, and partly unwilling, to douse. < as lemmas |
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