英语词汇“fire folk”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fire folk n. (a) firefighters collectively; also in plural in same sense; †(b) (poetic) the stars (obsolete rare); (c) (in folklore) a class of supernatural beings associated with fire.

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1837 Satirist 8 Oct. 743/2 The fire-folks, engines and all, will have a sinecure, and insurances soon be a needless ceremony.

1877 G. M. Hopkins Starlight Night in Let. 3 Mar. in Corr. (2013) I. 263 O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!

1911 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Oct. ii. iii. 472 ‘Feed the fire-folk! Feed the fire-folk!’.., the old man hastened and tossed bundle after bundle of some fragrant prepared wood upon the fire, which shivered into a myriad iridescent sparkles.

1918 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Nov. 17 (advt.) Risking life and limb in guardianship of the lives and property of others, America's ‘Smoke Eaters’ (thus it is our fire-folk term themselves) and all that is theirs are continually put to the test.

2014 J. M. Harris Gospel of Loki iv. iii. 272 Ironwood was no place for them now, not with Fenris running wild and my army of Firefolk and half-blood demons so close by.

2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 July (Late ed.) 10 I've heard and read more than once..‘fire folks’ instead of ‘firefighters’ and ‘military folks’ instead of ‘soldiers.’

单词	fire folk
释义	> as lemmas fire folk fire folk n. (a) firefighters collectively; also in plural in same sense; †(b) (poetic) the stars (obsolete rare); (c) (in folklore) a class of supernatural beings associated with fire. ΚΠ 1837 Satirist 8 Oct. 743/2 The fire-folks, engines and all, will have a sinecure, and insurances soon be a needless ceremony. 1877 G. M. Hopkins Starlight Night in Let. 3 Mar. in Corr. (2013) I. 263 O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! 1911 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Oct. ii. iii. 472 ‘Feed the fire-folk! Feed the fire-folk!’.., the old man hastened and tossed bundle after bundle of some fragrant prepared wood upon the fire, which shivered into a myriad iridescent sparkles. 1918 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 1 Nov. 17 (advt.) Risking life and limb in guardianship of the lives and property of others, America's ‘Smoke Eaters’ (thus it is our fire-folk term themselves) and all that is theirs are continually put to the test. 2014 J. M. Harris Gospel of Loki iv. iii. 272 Ironwood was no place for them now, not with Fenris running wild and my army of Firefolk and half-blood demons so close by. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 July (Late ed.) 10 I've heard and read more than once..‘fire folks’ instead of ‘firefighters’ and ‘military folks’ instead of ‘soldiers.’ extracted from firen.int. < as lemmas
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