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a. 点着的


  1. Their faces were alit with happiness.
    他们脸上喜气洋洋。
  2. The firewood was so wet that we couldn't get it alight.
    木柴太湿,点不着。
  3. An airplane alighted on the airdrome.
    一架飞机在机场着陆。


alight


Alight \A*light"\, a. [Pref. a- + light.]
Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. ``The lamps were alight.''
--Dickens.


Alight \A*light"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Alighted}sometimes
{Alit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alighting}.] [OE. alihten, fr. AS.
[=a]l[=i]htan; pref. [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig.
meaning out) + l[=i]htan, to alight, orig. to render light,
to remove a burden from, fr. l[=i]ht, leoht, light. See
{Light}, v. i.]
1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback
or from a carriage; to dismount.

2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying
bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

3. To come or chance (upon). [R.]

  1. A girl who squandered her school fees on makeup, clothing and candy died after dousing herself with paraffin and setting herself alight, police said Wednesday.
  2. In Tel Aviv's Bnai Brak neighborhood, ultra-Orthodox Jews carried plastic bags of bread to barrels or open fields and set them alight.
  3. On his way home, he was caught, killed and set alight.
  4. His throat was slashed and his body set alight.
  5. A SAPA reporter following Mandela into the township, Lew Elias, said his vehicle was stoned, overturned and set alight by angry township youths.
  6. THE DRUGS sector was alight with talk that Boots and Fisons are considering merging their ethical drugs divisions.
  7. Rioters set alight the administrative block of the Health Ministry and the local branch of the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
  8. The city has complex racial and cultural tensions, sharpened by economic pressures that can set them alight.
  9. Protesters commandeered several buses, blocking the motorway, and poured fuel on the asphalt and set it alight.
  10. Numerous suspected government collaborators were executed in 1984-86 by "necklacing," in which a gasoline-soaked tire is placed around a victim's neck and set alight.
  11. Dragon bonds set south-east Asia's debt markets alight last year: issuers as diverse as Abbey National and China launched some USDollars 3bn worth of bonds and some bankers found the paper easy to place. Now, the fire appears to have been doused.
  12. The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum in Indonesia hardly set the world alight, despite the presence of more than 500 hacks and assorted national leaders.
  13. Ruben Bloomberg said in Pretoria that a group of black high school students stoned the Mandela home, then doused it with gasoline and set it alight.
  14. Unlike a new TV programme, a Cathy Come Home or Death On The Rock, a 'new' video will not set a hundred newspaper columnists alight.
  15. The police unrest report also listed several incidents in which youths stoned homes, police and private vehicles and set them alight.
  16. Meanwhile, skirmishes continued today in the black townships. Houses and cars were set alight in Katlehong, Tokoza and Vosloosrus, southeast of Johannesburg.
  17. Mrs. Fass, who was in her 50s, had a gasoline-soaked tire placed around her neck and set alight.
  18. Who's wearing what and with whom _ the evening's Five Ws _ have been known to steal the show from the golden statuettes that come later, as arriving celebrities ritualistically alight from their black limos.
  19. In a separate attack, a person was burned to death when a car was set alight.
  20. A day earlier in Tourcoing, windows were broken and two cars set alight in clashes between youths and policemen. The Tourcoing disturbances were sparked after a young north African motorcyclist fell when police approached him for not wearing a helmet.
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