1 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. 蜡烛

2 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. 一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力

3 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 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. 远不如;比…逊色许多

4 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 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. 不值得;划不来 [old-fashioned]