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

a. On fire, as a combustible; in process of being destroyed by fire; enveloped in flames. spec. burning mountain (now archaic), a volcano.

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c1000 Ælfric Deut. ix. 15 Þa ic nyþereode of þam byrnendan munte.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 27 He mahte iseon ane berninde glede.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2236 Lucafer þanne tok op an-haste þe brennyngest bronde a couþe.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Ai Bering burning coles.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 107 The Sentinell..ought to cock his burning match.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 69 A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 55 The burning mountains or volcano's of the earth.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 281. ¶13 A Pan of burning Coals.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 686/1 Thus..the foundation of the burning mountain would be laid in the bottom of the sea.

1805 M. Lewis 16 Nov. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 478 Specimen of the pummice Stone found amongst the piles of drift wood on the Missouri... I can hear of no burning mountain in the neighbourhood.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 352 They were hardly clear of the burning town.

1937 ‘C. S. Forester’ Happy Return i. 22 He heard young Clay bellowing from the masthead, where presumably Gerard had sent him with a glass. ‘Looks like a burning mountain, sir. Two burning mountains. Volcanoes, sir’.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xx. 444 These ‘fiery’ and ‘smoky’ appearances, together with the glare reflected from the glowing lavas beneath, were responsible for the formerly popular idea that volcanoes are ‘burning mountains’.

单词	burning mountain
释义	> as lemmas burning mountain a. On fire, as a combustible; in process of being destroyed by fire; enveloped in flames. spec. burning mountain (now archaic), a volcano. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Deut. ix. 15 Þa ic nyþereode of þam byrnendan munte. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 27 He mahte iseon ane berninde glede. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2236 Lucafer þanne tok op an-haste þe brennyngest bronde a couþe. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Ai Bering burning coles. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 107 The Sentinell..ought to cock his burning match. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 69 A fiery Deluge, fed With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd. View more context for this quotation 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 55 The burning mountains or volcano's of the earth. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 281. ¶13 A Pan of burning Coals. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 686/1 Thus..the foundation of the burning mountain would be laid in the bottom of the sea. 1805 M. Lewis 16 Nov. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 478 Specimen of the pummice Stone found amongst the piles of drift wood on the Missouri... I can hear of no burning mountain in the neighbourhood. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 352 They were hardly clear of the burning town. 1937 ‘C. S. Forester’ Happy Return i. 22 He heard young Clay bellowing from the masthead, where presumably Gerard had sent him with a glass. ‘Looks like a burning mountain, sir. Two burning mountains. Volcanoes, sir’. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xx. 444 These ‘fiery’ and ‘smoky’ appearances, together with the glare reflected from the glowing lavas beneath, were responsible for the formerly popular idea that volcanoes are ‘burning mountains’. extracted from burningadj. < as lemmas
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