| 单词 | to burn one's foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto burn one's foot a. To wound or to cause pain to (a person, animal, or part of the body) by the contact of fire or of something intensely heated: said both of the fire or heated body itself, and of the person who applies it. Often reflexive (of persons, with approach to the passive sense); also in expressions such as to burn one's fingers, to burn one's foot = to suffer injury in those members by burning. Also absol. Π a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xliii. 2 Whan thou shalt go in fyr, thou shalt not be brent. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7224 Man aght to dred þe brand þat brint [Fairf. brende] him forwit in his hand. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 2382 He that is brent, men seithe, dredethe the fire. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 43 Yt brennyth hym, and woundeth hym so sore. 1594 M. Drayton Matilda sig. D3 Warm'd with the fire, which vnawars might burne me. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 16 When a Coal burns your Finger. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 26 The power of heat to burn. < as lemmas |
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