candle的中文翻譯是什麼意思
candle
n. 蠟燭
candle的柯林斯釋義
N-COUNT蠟燭
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.
臥室裡只點了一支蠟燭。
PHRASE一根蠟燭兩頭燒;起早摸黑地幹;過度耗費精力
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遠不如;比…遜色許多
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年代的美女相提並論。
PHRASE不值得;划不來
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的英文釋義
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的短語
be unable to hold a candle to
(非正式)比不上，與…不能相比
(the game's) not worth the candle
不值得做；得不償失
candle的場景例句
No one can hold a candle to him when it comes to playing the guitar.
說到彈吉他,誰也比不上他.
I can't burn the candle at both ends forever.
我不能永遠這麼過分的消耗精力.
He hadn't had a bad education himself, but he couldn't hold a candle to her.
他自己受過的教育並不差, 可是跟她一比就簡直沒門了.
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
照亮黑暗的高高燭火多麼高貴.
The breeze flared the candle.
微風吹得燭光不定.