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单词 alight
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alight

adjective
/əˈlaɪt/
/əˈlaɪt/
[not before noun]Idioms
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  1. on fire
    • A cigarette set the dry grass alight.
    • A car was overturned and set alight.
    • Her dress caught alight in the fire.
    • The fires had to be kept alight each night.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • catch
    • remain
    adverb
    • well
    phrases
    • alight with excitement, laughter, pleasure, etc.
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  2. (formal) (of faces or eyes) showing a feeling of happiness or excitement
    • The children’s faces were alight with enthusiasm.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • catch
    • remain
    adverb
    • well
    phrases
    • alight with excitement, laughter, pleasure, etc.
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  3. Word Originadjective late Middle English: probably from the phrase on a light (= lighted) fire.
Idioms
set the world alight (British English)
(also set the world on fire British and North American English)
  1. (informal) (usually used in negative sentences) to be very successful and admired by other people
    • He's never going to set the world alight with his paintings.

alight

verb
/əˈlaɪt/
/əˈlaɪt/
(formal or literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they alight
/əˈlaɪt/
/əˈlaɪt/
he / she / it alights
/əˈlaɪts/
/əˈlaɪts/
past simple alighted
/əˈlaɪtɪd/
/əˈlaɪtɪd/
past participle alighted
/əˈlaɪtɪd/
/əˈlaɪtɪd/
-ing form alighting
/əˈlaɪtɪŋ/
/əˈlaɪtɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [intransitive] alight (in/on/upon something) (of a bird or an insect) to land in or on something after flying to it
    • A butterfly fluttered by and alighted on a rose.
    • Several birds alighted on the branches of the tree.
    synonym land
  2. [intransitive] alight (from something) to get out of a bus, a train or other vehicle synonym get off
    • Do not alight from a moving bus.
    Extra Examples
    • Alight here for the National Conference Centre.
    • She alighted at a little station at the foot of the hill.
    Topics Transport by bus and trainc2
  3. Word Originverb Old English ālīhtan, from ā- (as an intensifier) + līhtan ‘descend’.
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