单词 | burn the candle at both ends |
释义 | burn the candle at both endsburn the candle at both ends informalWORK HARD to get very tired by doing things until very late at night and getting up early in the mornings 一根蜡烛两头烧,起早贪黑而疲惫不堪 Examples from the Corpus burn the candle at both ends• Back in the twenties, the Millay sisters were known in New York society for burning the candle at both ends. → burn the candle at both ends at burn1(7) |
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