fire-eater / ˈfaɪərˌi tər /

⚽高中词汇食火者食火兽食火人食火器

fire-eater 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. an entertainer who pretends to eat fire.
  2. an easily provoked, belligerent person.
  3. U.S. History. an early and extreme Southern advocate of secession before the Civil War.

fire-eater 近义词

fire-eater

等同于 shrew

更多fire-eater例句

  1. But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
  2. The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
  3. Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
  4. Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
  5. A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
  6. "A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
  7. She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
  8. The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
  9. But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
  10. The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.