英语词汇“oil to fire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. (to add) oil to (the) fire (also flame) (and variants) [compare classical Latin oleum camīnō, oleum flammae, in post-classical Latin also oleum igni (4th cent.)] : used in similative and figurative contexts to refer to something which makes existing anger, conflict, emotion, etc., more intense. to pour oil on the fire (and variants): to increase or aggravate anger, passion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > infuriate [verb (transitive)] > intensify or aggravate fury

(to add) oil to (the) fire (also flame)1548

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxviii^v There were also certaine other malicious and busye persones who added Oyle..to the Fornace.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxviij^v As the common saying is, powred oyle vpon the fyre.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. 92 But all intreaty was like oyle to fire, Not quench'd; but more inflam'd the scurvy Squire.

1647 A. Cowley Incurable in Mistress iv But Wine, alas, was Oyl to th' fire.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 99 At dinner mention was made of the charmingest youth..which..was throwing oil on a fire I was sorely put to it to smother the blaze of.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 70 Serving only like oil to the flame.

1841 C. Brontë Let. 2 Nov. (1995) I. 272 Mary..cast oil on the flames..encouraged me & in her own strong energetic language heartened me on.

1946 W. W. Allen Walt Whitman Handbk. 476 Buchanan poured more oil on the fire with a satirical poem against the Bostonians.

1990 J. R. Nassar & R. Heacock Intifada xix. 310 The massacre of demonstrating, unarmed civilians only adds oil to the flames.

单词	oil to fire
释义	> as lemmas (to add) oil to (the) fire (also flame) P2. (to add) oil to (the) fire (also flame) (and variants) [compare classical Latin oleum camīnō, oleum flammae, in post-classical Latin also oleum igni (4th cent.)] : used in similative and figurative contexts to refer to something which makes existing anger, conflict, emotion, etc., more intense. to pour oil on the fire (and variants): to increase or aggravate anger, passion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > infuriate [verb (transitive)] > intensify or aggravate fury (to add) oil to (the) fire (also flame)1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxviii^v There were also certaine other malicious and busye persones who added Oyle..to the Fornace. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxviij^v As the common saying is, powred oyle vpon the fyre. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. 92 But all intreaty was like oyle to fire, Not quench'd; but more inflam'd the scurvy Squire. 1647 A. Cowley Incurable in Mistress iv But Wine, alas, was Oyl to th' fire. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 99 At dinner mention was made of the charmingest youth..which..was throwing oil on a fire I was sorely put to it to smother the blaze of. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 70 Serving only like oil to the flame. 1841 C. Brontë Let. 2 Nov. (1995) I. 272 Mary..cast oil on the flames..encouraged me & in her own strong energetic language heartened me on. 1946 W. W. Allen Walt Whitman Handbk. 476 Buchanan poured more oil on the fire with a satirical poem against the Bostonians. 1990 J. R. Nassar & R. Heacock Intifada xix. 310 The massacre of demonstrating, unarmed civilians only adds oil to the flames. extracted from oiln.¹ < as lemmas
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