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fire (obj) SHOOTHfaIE5, $faIrvto (cause a weapon to) shoot bullets, arrows or MISSILES开火，射击He fired his gun into the air. [T]他朝天开枪。Someone started firing at us. [I]有人朝我们开火。Without warning he started firing into the crowd. [I]他没有发出什么警告，就开始向人群射击。I just prayed that he would stop firing. [I]我只是祈祷他会停止射击。The ambassador denied that any missiles had been fired across the border. [T]大使否认曾经向边界以外发射过任何导弹。(fig.) The journalists were firing questions (=asking questions that followed quickly one after the other) at me for two whole hours. [T]记者们如同连珠炮一般向我提了整整两个小时的问题。(fig.) "I'd like to ask you some questions about your childhood, if I may. " "Fire away! (=You can start asking them immediately)". [I]“假如可以的话，我想问几个有关您孩提时代的问题。” “快点问吧!”(fig.) He fired off (=wrote quickly) an angry letter.他奋笔疾书，写了一封充满怒气的信。If something is in the firing line (Am also on the firing line) its existence is threatened.存亡危机The new limits on government spending mean that next year's proposed tax cuts are now in the firing line.对政府开支的新限制意味着原定明年的减税如今要落空了。If someone is in the firing line (Am on the firing line), they are being criticized for something they have said or done.备受批评的，备受指责的The judge found himself in the firing line from women's groups after his controversial comments about sexual assault.由于发表了有关性攻击方面有争议的评论，那位法官发现自己成了妇女团体的众矢之的。A firing squad is a group of soldiers whose job is to shoot and kill someone who has been given the death sentence (=who is to be killed as a punishment).行刑队
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