candles的中文翻译是什么意思

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.