Fire

(noun.) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; 'hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes'; 'they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire'.

(noun.) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; 'they sat by the fire and talked'.

(noun.) intense adverse criticism; 'Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party'; 'the government has come under attack'; 'don't give me any flak'.

(noun.) the event of something burning (often destructive); 'they lost everything in the fire'.

(noun.) a severe trial; 'he went through fire and damnation'.

(noun.) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; 'fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries'.

(noun.) fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking; 'put the kettle on the fire'; 'barbecue over an open fire'.

(noun.) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles).

(verb.) bake in a kiln so as to harden; 'fire pottery'.

(verb.) cause to go off; 'fire a gun'; 'fire a bullet'.

(verb.) go off or discharge; 'The gun fired'.

(verb.) drive out or away by or as if by fire; 'The soldiers were fired'; 'Surrender fires the cold skepticism'.

校对:卢埃林

• Have you a fire? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It attracted Mr. Lorry's eyes to Carton's face, which was turned to the fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Will wind, water, fire, lend me a path to Moore? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There's a fire in there. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He fired on it and he could hear the spang against the steel. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The gypsy aimed carefully and fired and as he jerked the bolt back and ejected the shell Robert Jordan said, Over. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Artillery were out of the question: they were fired now and then, only to show that they had them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• These guns for the most part were so heavy that they had to be rested on some object to be fired. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For a gun is fired close by. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• How they must have tugged at the pitiless fetters as the fierce fires surged around them! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Then the kind hostess conducted her guests to the snug apartments blazing with cheerful fires. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There were odd little fires playing in his eyes, he seemed to have turned into something wicked and flickering, mocking, suggestive, quite impossible. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The fact that the oxygen of the air is diluted as it were with so large a proportion of nitrogen, prevents fires from sweeping over the world and destroying everything in their path. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When you hear firing, he said, come with the horses. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The Dutch fleet, frozen in the Texel, surrendered to a handful of cavalry without firing its guns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The others all were firing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We heard the firing and confusion very plainly here; we none of us slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The enemy ceased firing as soon as we withdrew. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It suggested that at the time of the firing, the window as well as the door of the room had been open. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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