| 释义 |
Examples:burning the midnight oil—incense burning in front of a temple—clear waste land or forest by burning—use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects—lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure—smoke from burning incense—agglomerate ore by burning—burning beanstalks cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife—destroy (by melting or burning)—watch the fires burning across the river—the Qin burning of the books in 212 BC—a censer (for burning incense)—altar lamp burning day and night—be burning with anger [idiom.]—an army burning with righteous indignation is bound win [idiom.]—lit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); arrogance of the powerful—burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day—lit. make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil—burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble—kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson—lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns have influence—burn paper offerings (as part of religious ceremony)—lit. call the fire burn the grass (idiom); to cause a quarrel by provocation—lit. burn zithers and cook cranes—Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII—burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)—choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person—While the green hills last, there'll be wood burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.—burn charcoal (often a reference to suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning)—lit. burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common—cover a fire (to make it burn slowly)—household things that burn—slash-and-burn (agriculture)— |