| 单词 | kindle |
| 释义 | kin·dle I. transitive verb 1. < kindle a fire with a match > 2. a. < armies cannot be raised … unless the rage of the people is first kindled by lies and name-calling — Kenneth Roberts > < these two delightful … handbooks should kindle a child's imagination — Muna Lee > b. < his enthusiasm kindles his comrades > < hopes that … kindled close to half of France — Janet Flanner > c. < the Good Neighbor policy … which was kindled by Sumner Welles — A.C.Wilgus > 3. < animation kindling his pale face — A.J.Cronin > < kindling with color the pale lichens — Thomas Vance > intransitive verb 1. a. < some fire to kindle with — Stith Thompson > b. < dry leaves kindle at the touch of flame > 2. a. < their mutual resentment again kindled — Edward Gibbon > b. < no boy will fail to kindle to the struggles of his California youth — Ethna Sheehan > 3. < light kindled in the liquor — Frances G. Patton > < could see her eyes widen, kindle and flinch — John Fountain > II. now dialect < a kindle of kittens > • - in kindle III. transitive verb < one of our does kindled a single rabbit — American Small Stock Farmer > intransitive verb < bred one of the Angora does to kindle about the time I would be making the move — Standard Rabbit Journal > — now used chiefly of a rabbit |
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