ablaze
英語
[編輯]詞源
[編輯]a- (「在，在...里，在...上」) + blaze (「火焰」)
發音
[編輯]形容詞
[編輯]ablaze (比較級 more ablaze，最高級 most ablaze)
- 猛烈燃燒的，熾熱的 （18世紀）
- 1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v,[1]
- On entering the walls which surround the house, then all ablaze, a most dreadful conflict took place […]
- 1881, Walt Whitman, 「The Torch」, 出自 Leaves of Grass[2], Boston: James R. Osgood，第 305 頁:
- The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
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- 1932, Pearl S. Buck, Sons, Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1992, Chapter 13, pp. 128-129,[3]
- So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.
- 2011年10月23日, Phil McNulty, 「Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City」, 出自 BBC Sport[4]:
- Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.
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- 1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v,[1]
- 耀眼的，亮眼的 （18世紀）
- 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery:
- All ablaze with crimson and gold.
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- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, 章號 I, 出自 Leave It to Psmith:
- The day being June the thirtieth, which is the very high-tide time of summer flowers, the immediate neighbourhood of the castle was ablaze with roses, pinks, pansies, carnations, hollyhocks, columbines, larkspurs, London pride, Canterbury bells, and a multitude of other choice blooms.
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- 1961, Cyprian Ekwensi, 章號 3, 出自 Jagua Nana[6], Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 出版於 1969，第 13 頁:
- She loved this hour when the lights were coming up in the causeway: white and blue and orange lights and the hotels and coloured adverts ablaze but not yet effective in the pale twilight.
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- 2021年7月28日, Paul Bigland, 「Calder line captures picturesque Pennines」, 出自 RAIL, 第 936 期，第 69 頁:
- Autumn is a lovely time to visit as the tree cover near the line is ablaze with colour.
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- 非常激動的，非常興奮的 （17世紀）
- 大約1680, uncredited translator, An Essay upon the Action of an Orator by Michel Le Faucheur, London: Nicholas Cox, pp. 184-185,[7]
- And this Fire of your Eyes easily strikes those of your Auditors, who have theirs constantly fixt upon yours; and it must needs set them a-blaze too upon the same Resentment and Passion.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
- The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.
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- 1880, George Washington Cable, 章號 40, 出自 The Grandissimes[8], New York: Scribner，第 318 頁:
- Raoul was ablaze with indignation.
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- 1955, James Baldwin, 「Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough」, 出自 Notes of a Native Son[9], New York: Dial, 出版於 1963，第 48 頁:
- His indifference to Carmen, who has all the other males in sight quivering with a passion never seen on land or sea, sets her ablaze; in a series of scenes which it is difficult to call erotic without adding that they are also infantile, she goes after him and he falls.
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- 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King[10], Edinburgh: Canongate:
- 大約1680, uncredited translator, An Essay upon the Action of an Orator by Michel Le Faucheur, London: Nicholas Cox, pp. 184-185,[7]
近義詞
[編輯]衍生詞彙
[編輯]副詞
[編輯]ablaze (比較級 more ablaze，最高級 most ablaze)
- 燃燒着 （19世紀初葉）[1]
- 1969, Ray Bradbury, 「The Haunting of the New」, 出自 I Sing the Body Electric![11], New York: Knopf，第 143 頁:
- […] with the spontaneous combustion the house smouldered ablaze.
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- 耀眼地
- 非常激動地
參考資料
[編輯]- ↑ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002年)，「ablaze」，The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles，5th版，Oxford; New York, N.Y.：Oxford University Press，ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0，第 5 頁