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ablaze

/uh-bleyz/US // əˈbleɪz //UK // (əˈbleɪz) //

火焰,大火,炽热,燃烧

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : burning; on fire: They set the logs ablaze.
    • : gleaming with bright lights, bold colors, etc.
    • : excited; eager; zealous; ardent.
    • : very angry.

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Examples

  • Three workers were injured, multiple vehicles were set ablaze, and a home suffered minor damage after an explosion occurred while utility workers were doing planned maintenance on a gas line in Springfield on Wednesday, fire and gas officials said.

  • One of the men in the vehicle, Ivan Hunter, 23, has since been indicted for allegedly using an assault rifle to shoot up a police precinct in Minneapolis and helping to set the building ablaze.

  • In other words, money won’t matter in a world where climate change is unchecked, where continents are ablaze, glaciers are melting, and rainforests are disappearing.

  • Small corners of the internet are ablaze with the news that Apple has significantly ramped up its search bot activity.

  • Pipelines exploded with the force of bombs, setting homes ablaze in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts, on the evening of September 13, 2018.

  • When she returned an hour later, the lights were again ablaze.

  • Social media is ablaze over the Ray Rice video, wondering why his future wife stayed.

  • But not this year: the Middle East is ablaze in conflict, the Russians are busy destabilizing Ukraine.

  • Big scary Transformer-like robots with heads ablaze that frighten the kids back across the treacherous desert?

  • The Internet was ablaze Monday with the news of a computer passing the infamous Turing test—but not so fast.

  • Within a week all Missouri will be ablaze, and the hottest place for Yankees in all Christendom.

  • Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.

  • Bruder Kalkmann turned the handle and they entered a room ablaze with light and full of people.

  • In the evening when the electric lights were ablaze the Norwood lawns were a pretty sight 112 indeed.

  • I can see her now, erect and haughty, facing me across the dinner-table, her eyes ablaze with indignation.