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

b. transferred and figurative. to fight fire: cf. firefighter n., firefighting n. 1.

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to fight fire1835

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 560 The shifts Which he that fights a season so severe Devises.

1824 W. Owen Diary 24 Dec. in Indiana Hist. Soc. Publ. (1906) IV. 83 Then they fight it [sc. a fire]..endeavouring to overcome it by striking it with clap-boards.]

1835 J. Abbott New Eng. & Inst. 21 For days and nights together, all the physical force of the village has been arrayed in ‘fighting the fire’.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxii. 176 She cannot fight the fear of death.

1852 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult xiv Some ship that fights the gale.

1860 Leisure Hour 1 Nov. 690/2 Fight fire, fight water, fight Farmer Jackson, wagoner and mate.

1865 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 July 470/1 They took away from the local firemen their apparatus, and proceeded in their own way to ‘fight fire’.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ii. 22 There are today thousands who, though they may sometimes grumble, at heart have enjoyed fighting fires or acting as wardens.

单词	to fight fire
释义	> as lemmas to fight fire b. transferred and figurative. to fight fire: cf. firefighter n., firefighting n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > extinguish (fire) [verb (transitive)] > fight (fire) to fight fire1835 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 560 The shifts Which he that fights a season so severe Devises. 1824 W. Owen Diary 24 Dec. in Indiana Hist. Soc. Publ. (1906) IV. 83 Then they fight it [sc. a fire]..endeavouring to overcome it by striking it with clap-boards.] 1835 J. Abbott New Eng. & Inst. 21 For days and nights together, all the physical force of the village has been arrayed in ‘fighting the fire’. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxii. 176 She cannot fight the fear of death. View more context for this quotation 1852 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult xiv Some ship that fights the gale. 1860 Leisure Hour 1 Nov. 690/2 Fight fire, fight water, fight Farmer Jackson, wagoner and mate. 1865 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 July 470/1 They took away from the local firemen their apparatus, and proceeded in their own way to ‘fight fire’. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ii. 22 There are today thousands who, though they may sometimes grumble, at heart have enjoyed fighting fires or acting as wardens. extracted from fightv. < as lemmas
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