candle的中文翻译是什么意思
candle
n. 蜡烛
candle的柯林斯释义
N-COUNT蜡烛
A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.
The bedroom was lit by a single candle.
卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。
PHRASE一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力
If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.
PHRASE远不如;比…逊色许多
If you say that one person or thing can't hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second.
Girls today can't hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties.
如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。
PHRASE不值得;划不来
If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
candle的英文释义
Noun
1. stick of wax with a wick in the middle
2. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
Verb
1. examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light
candle的短语
be unable to hold a candle to
(非正式)比不上，与…不能相比
(the game's) not worth the candle
不值得做；得不偿失
candle的场景例句
No one can hold a candle to him when it comes to playing the guitar.
说到弹吉他,谁也比不上他.
I can't burn the candle at both ends forever.
我不能永远这么过分的消耗精力.
He hadn't had a bad education himself, but he couldn't hold a candle to her.
他自己受过的教育并不差, 可是跟她一比就简直没门了.
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
照亮黑暗的高高烛火多么高贵.
The breeze flared the candle.
微风吹得烛光不定.