| 单词 | blaze |
| 释义 | blaze I. 1. a. < with what a blaze the lamp shines forth > b. < the blaze of noon > 2. a. (1) < we'll have a good blaze in a minute > (2) < fires would appear in the most distant places from the main blaze — Mary H. Vorse > b. < the crackle and blaze of dry oak logs > — compare smolder 3. a. < the Christmas blaze of shops — Saul Bellow > especially < hills covered with a blaze of flowers > < a blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same — Thomas Hardy > b. < a great blaze of patriotism > : outburst < her words came in a blaze of fury > c. < the blaze of his auburn hair > d. < go to blazes > often as an intensive with in < where in blazes have you been > 4. a. b. II. intransitive verb 1. a. < he stirred the fire and the logs blazed up > b. < his eyes blazed with anger > c. < must this old conflict blaze up again > 2. a. < the sun blazing overhead > b. < an intellect that blazed above his fellows like a meteor > < the air was frosty, the ridges blazing with color > 3. a. < any but the best would have lost their nerve and blazed away — Fred Majdalany > b. < they keep blazing away about ideals and principles — John Buchan > < she blazed out in anger and disgust > transitive verb 1. a. < the forests were blazed by the contemptuous use of wood fuel — Bernard Pares > b. < a pudding blazed with brandy > 2. a. < the sugar maples blaze their orange glory — L.S.Gannett > b. < he blazed his wrath to all who would listen > < the stalls and stores blazing their bargains > Synonyms: < the pine branches were soon blazing > < the sun blazing down on the prairie > < Cobbett, the tough, bluff Englishman … lived in the United States from 1792 to 1800 and made the country too hot to hold him by blazing antirevolutionary propaganda — Gilbert Highet > < Conkling, eyes blazing, rose to reply and lashed out with all the oratorical fury and savage invective at his command — Sidney Warren > < after the heavy rains which come at infrequent intervals, the desert blazes with colorful flowers — American Guide Series: California > flame calls attention to leaping or darting tongues of fire, perhaps with less steadiness, intensity, and effectiveness than blaze < the paper fire flamed up > < discontent with harsh treatment and long hours without pay flamed into open protest — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < she flamed forth in public life as an embodiment of democracy, as the hope and cheer of common men — Marvin Lowenthal > < the windowpanes, which flamed with a reflected glow — Ellen Glasgow > flare may suggest single flames or fires darting up with sudden light or similar lighting effects or sudden bursts of activity or feeling < torches flared in the darkness — F.V.W.Mason > < the shore shut off the bottom of the tower. You could only see the top, the white tapering over the brown sand until it flared into the red crown that held the light which mariners on a tall bridge could see for more than thirty miles in the night — Wirt Williams > < national guardsmen stand ready to move in if violence should flare between the trigger-tempered factions — H.H.Martin > < on the Republican side of the aisle tempers flared and fighting words were hurled — New York Times > glare suggests a quite bright or dazzling steady light that compels notice and often becomes unpleasant; in figurative uses it may apply to the egregious or flagrant or may connote antipathy or malevolence < the sun glaring on the snow > < an unshielded light bulb glaring in his eyes > < this injustice was peculiarly glaring — T.B.Macaulay > < watch a pair of cats, crouching on the brink of a fight. Balefully the eyes glare — Aldous Huxley > glow stresses emission of light without flame and may suggest steadiness, luminousness, and duration; in extensions it may indicate showing strong bright color or diffused strong feeling < the sun was low in the west, and the sky was glowing — Charles Dickens > < the beauty of hills glowing purple with heather — O.S.Nock > < what mattered … was the fire that burned within him, that glowed with so strange and marvelous a radiance in almost all he wrote — Aldous Huxley > III. 1. < blaze those virtues which the good would hide — Alexander Pope > — often used with abroad < people who blaze abroad each new bit of scandal > 2. obsolete IV. 1. a. b. c. 2. a. b. c. < she must try to find her way by the blazes of former emotion — Kathleen Sproul > 3. V. 1. < go through the lot and blaze the trees to be cut this winter > 2. a. < blazed a trail through the mountains > b. < the new Russia promised, for a time, to follow the liberal democratic path the United States had blazed — Oscar Handlin > < we blaze open a vast new territory of enjoyment — John Gassner > |
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