| 单词 | house fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse fire house fire n. (a) a fire which burns down or damages a house; (b) a fire lit in a house, usually in a grate or fireplace, for warmth, cooking, etc.figurative in quot. 1638. ΚΠ 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xix. sig. H5 Ne let house fyres, nor lightnings helpelesse harmes..Fray vs. 1638 S. Rutherford Let. 4 Feb. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 14 This is Christs ordinarie house-fire that he maks use of, to try..what weight of gold, & what weight of watered copper is in his house. 1727 J. Hutchinson Moses's Principia: Pt. II 215 Two [services]..which those who sit or walk by a House-fire enjoy, viz. Warmth and Light. 1879 Notes Building Constr. III. 123 This gives a brick capable of resisting the action of the heat caused by a house fire, though it would not be sufficiently refractory for resisting a furnace temperature. 1903 W. Mathews Conquering Success xiii. 156 His [sc. Carlyle's] ‘History of the French Revolution’..was used by a friend's maid-of-all-work to light the house fires with. 1989 Which? July 343/1 It's well worth fitting a smoke-detector,..since many people die from the smoke of a house fire. 2004 New Yorker 19 Apr. 20/1 By the time he was sixteen his family was..torn apart,..his sister killed by the third of four house fires. < as lemmas |
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