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单词 burn the candle at both ends
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burn1 /bûrn/

transitive verb (pat and pap burnt or burned)
  1. To consume or injure by fire or great heat
  2. To produce an effect of heat on (as to bake pottery, produce charcoal, calcine lime, scorch food, wither grass)
  3. To brand
  4. To oxidize
  5. To make a copy of (a CD-ROM)
  6. To use (up), eg uranium, in a nuclear reactor (usu with up)
  7. To corrode
  8. To sting
  9. To make (a hole, etc) by fire or analogous means
intransitive verb
  1. To be burnt
  2. To be on fire
  3. To give out heat or light
  4. To glow
  5. To feel very hot
  6. To sting
  7. To be inflamed with passion
noun
  1. A hurt or mark due to burning
  2. A controlled fire to reduce vegetation, or the area so cleared (N American, Aust, NZ)
  3. The firing of a rocket engine in order to produce thrust
  4. Tobacco, a smoke, a cigarette (slang)
  5. A very fast ride, etc on a motorcycle, in a speedboat, etc
  6. Pain felt in a muscle, experienced during demanding exercise
ORIGIN: In OE the transitive weak verb bærnan, bærnde, bærned has been confused with the intransitive strong verb beornan, byrnan, barn, bornen; cf Ger brennen to burn

burnˈer noun

  1. A person or thing that burns
  2. A fixture or part of a lamp, gas jet or gas cooker from which a flame comes

burnˈing noun

  1. The act of consuming by fire
  2. Conflagration
  3. Inflammation
  4. A quantity burned at one time
  5. Controlled expenditure of rocket propellant for course adjustment purposes
adjective
  1. Very hot
  2. Scorching
  3. Ardent
  4. Excessive

burnˈingly adverb

burn bag noun

A bag or other receptacle used to hold classified documents that are to be destroyed after a certain period of time

burnˈ-in noun

A test of the reliability of computer hardware or software involving a period of extended use

burning bush noun

  1. The emblem of the Church of Scotland and other Presbyterian churches, with the motto ‘Nec tamen consumebatur’, referring to the Covenanters overcoming the persecutions of the 17c (from Bible, Exodus 3.2)
  2. Applied to various plants, such as dittany, whose volatile oil may catch fire in the air, some American species of spindle-tree with bright-red fruits, artillery-plant, etc

burnˈing-glass noun

A convex lens concentrating the sun's rays at its focus to produce fire or heat

burnˈing-house noun

A kiln

burning issue see burning question below.

burnˈing-mirror noun

A concave mirror for producing fire or heat by concentrating the sun's rays

burning mountain noun

A volcano

burnˈing-point noun

The temperature at which a volatile oil in an open vessel will take fire from a match held close to its surface

burning question or burning issue noun

One keenly discussed

burn-out see burn out below.

burn rate noun (finance)

The rate at which a new company spends its capital

burnt almonds plural noun

Almonds in burnt sugar

burnt cork noun

Charred cork used for blacking the face

burnt-corkˈ transitive verb

burnt cream noun

Crème brûlée

burntˈ-ear noun

Smut in oats, wheat, etc

burnˈ-the-wind noun (Scot)

A blacksmith

burnt ochre see under ochre

burnt-offˈering noun

Something offered and burned on an altar as a sacrifice (also facetious)

burnt sienna see sienna under Sienese

burnt umber see under umber1

burnˈ-up noun

The using up of fuel in a nuclear reactor

burn a hole in one's pocket

Said of money when one is eager to spend it

burn blue see under blue1

burn daylight (Shakespeare)

To waste time

burn down

To burn to the ground

burned out

Ineffective, exhausted

burned up (US sl)

Angry

burn in

  1. To fix and make durable by intense heat
  2. To imprint indelibly

burn one's boats or bridges

  1. To cut oneself off from all chance of retreat
  2. To stake everything on success

burn one's fingers or get one's fingers burnt

To suffer as a result of interfering, speculating, etc

burn out

  1. To destroy or drive out by burning
  2. To burn until the fire dies down from want of fuel
  3. To (cause to) break down or fail to work as a result of overheating
  4. To (cause to) become ineffective through overwork, exhaustion, etc (burnˈ-out noun)

burn the candle at both ends see under candle

burn the midnight oil

To study late into the night

burn the water (Scot)

To spear salmon by torchlight

burn up

  1. To consume completely by fire
  2. To be burned completely
  3. To increase in activity of burning
  4. To make short or easy work of
  5. To become or make angry (US sl)

(money) to burn

(money) in great abundance

candle /kanˈdl/

noun
  1. A block, usu a cylinder, of wax, tallow or the like surrounding a wick, burned to give light
  2. Something resembling this in appearance or function
  3. A photometric unit
  4. (also new candle) candela
  5. (international candle or standard candle) a former unit of luminous intensity
  6. A jet in a gas stove
  7. A luminary (literary)
transitive verb

To test (an egg) for freshness by holding up before a candle or other light

ORIGIN: OE candel, from L candēla, from candēre to glow

canˈdler noun

canˈdleberry noun

The wax myrtle or bayberry (Myrica cerifera), or its fruit

candle bomb noun

A small glass container filled with water, that explodes when placed in a candle flame

canˈdle-coal same as cannel

canˈdle-dipping noun

The method of making candles by dipping instead of moulding

canˈdle-doup see under doup

canˈdle-end noun

The end-piece of a burned-out candle

canˈdlefish noun

  1. See eulachon
  2. A W American fish, Anaplopoma fimbria, cheek-armoured and spiny-finned, the black candlefish

canˈdle-holder noun

  1. A candlestick or candelabrum
  2. A person who holds a candle to provide light for another while working or reading
  3. Hence someone who abets, connives or assists

canˈdlelight noun

  1. The light of a candle
  2. Illumination by candles
  3. The time when candles are lighted, dusk

canˈdle-lighter noun

  1. A person whose job it is to light candles
  2. A spill

canˈdlelit adjective

  1. Lit by candles
  2. Done or performed by the light of candles

canˈdlenut noun

The oil-yielding fruit of a species of a tropical tree (Aleurites mollucana) of the Pacific Islands

canˈdle-paring adjective

Miserly, stingy or parsimonious

canˈdle-power noun

  1. The illuminating power of a source of light
  2. A former name for luminous intensity

canˈdle-snuffer noun

A person or device that snuffs out candles (see snuff2; also figurative)

canˈdlestick noun

A portable stand for a candle, orig a stick or piece of wood

canˈdle-tree noun

A tropical American tree (Parmentiera cerifera) with candle-like pods

canˈdle-waster noun (old slang)

Someone who studies late

canˈdlewick noun

  1. A soft cotton tufted material used for bedspreads, etc
  2. The wick of a candle

canˈdlewood noun

The wood of various West Indian and Mexican resinous trees

burn the candle at both ends

To exhaust oneself by attempting to do too much, usu by going to bed late and getting up early for work

do a candle

Of a parachute, to fail to open out properly

not fit to hold a candle to (derogatory)

  1. Not to be compared with
  2. Very inferior to

sell by the candle (historical)

To offer for sale by auction as long as a small piece of candle burns, the successful bid being the one made just before it goes out

the game is not worth the candle

The thing is not worth the effort or expense required
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