The farmers compressed straw into blocks for burning. 农民们将干草压成块用来烧火。
Teachers are often compared to burning candles. 人们总是把老师比喻为燃烧的蜡烛。
Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; flammable. 易燃的很容易被点燃并迅速燃烧的;可燃烧的
burning
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the act of burning something
<noun.act> the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance
pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
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a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
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execution by electricity
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execution by fire
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a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin
<noun.act> [ adj ]
of immediate import
<adj.all> burning issues of the day
Burn \Burn\ (b[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Burned} (b[^u]rnd) or {Burnt} (b[^u]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Burning}.] [OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. b[ae]rnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. br[ae]nde, Sw. br["a]nna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan (in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent.] 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. ``We'll burn his body in the holy place.'' --Shak.
2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
This tyrant fever burns me up. --Shak.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. --Dryden.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ??ass as fire. --Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.
6. (Surg.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
7. (Chem.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
{To burn}, {To burn together}, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state.
{To burn a bowl} (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned.
{To burn daylight}, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. --Shak.
{To burn one's fingers}, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc.
{To burn out}, (a) to destroy or obliterate by burning. ``Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?'' --Shak. (b) to force (people) to flee by burning their homes or places of business; as, the rioters burned out the Chinese businessmen.
{To be burned out}, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents.
{To burn up}, {To burn down}, to burn entirely.
Burning \Burn"ing\, n. The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
{Burning fluid}, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.
{Burning glass}, a convex lens of considerable size, used for producing an intense heat by converging the sun's rays to a focus.
{Burning house} (Metal.), the furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulphur and arsenic from the pyrites. --Weale.
{Burning mirror}, a concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, used for the same purpose as a burning glass.
Like a young hound upon a burning scent. --Dryden.
{Burning bush} (Bot.), an ornamental shrub ({Euonymus atropurpureus}), bearing a crimson berry.
June 27 _ Bush calls for a constitutional amendment to bypass the Supreme Court ruling, saying "I will uphold our precious right to dissent, but burning the flag goes too far."
Wildfires were slowed Tuesday by lower temperatures and diminished winds after burning more than 7,300 acres and an exotic animal refuge and ancient Sequoia trees were put out of immediate danger.
A passenger jumped into his hands with a burning nylon jacket.
Elsewhere, firefighters in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming contained the last major fire burning in the forest, the 200-acre "Pocket" fire, beating a storm front expected to reach the area later today with high wind.
Isabelle Penzler, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, acknowledges that while these restrictions have never touched off a public outcry, they become for people who covet the right to choose "a burning issue.
One rainy night he rescues 54 people from a burning plane. There he is, juddering through outer Chicago in his noisy-wipered car, when the steel monster falls from the sky.
Firefighters opened a vent on a blazing, overturned propane tanker Wednesday to try to speed up the burning of a fire that closed two highways and a commuter rail line for a second day, officials said.
It smelled delicious and looked wonderful. She had cut it like this for practical reasons - in order to fit the narrow drawer-like oven at the bottom of her wood- burning stove.
The justices are being urged by prosecutors to reinstate a one-year jail sentence and $2,000 fine against a man accused of burning an American flag at a demonstration in Dallas during the 1984 Republican National Convention.
Among the defects were separations in the bonded adhesive insulation that helps hold the joints together, and channels that would allow the fiery gas to reach the joint's middle O-ring, one of three designed to contain heat from the burning fuel.
"This guy should not be in jail any longer if that's (flag burning) the basis for his conviction," said lawyer David Cole, who represented flag-burner Gregory Johnson in the Texas vs. Johnson case.
While some of Yellowstone's elk have left burning areas, none were running, and many are simply bedding down a hundred yards or so from the flames.
The Beaver fire, named for a village on the Yukon River, remained Alaska's largest; on Sunday it was burning a 10-by-48-mile section of spruce forest, said Hogervorst-Rukke.
An amendment to prohibit burning the American flag would temper the First Amendment by saying the right of free speech excluded burning the flag as a form of political expression.
An amendment to prohibit burning the American flag would temper the First Amendment by saying the right of free speech excluded burning the flag as a form of political expression.
Witnesses said fires in the shape of the hammer and sickle were burning in the mountains outside blacked-out Lima.
But he told more than 800 people during a morning session that civilized people "have long abandoned burning at the stake as a response to blasphemy.
Carbon dioxide, a product of burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests, is the principal warming gas.
"People in town have changed," said Pat Perkins, whose family escaped its burning house when her husband heard something in the yard and smelled smoke. "Everybody used to be very happy and smiling, laughing, talking.
Riot police used clubs and gunfire to break up gangs and clear open-air markets where rioters burned a bus and used boulders and burning tires to build roadblocks.
Border police in Jerusalem's Sur Bahir neighborhood fired tear gas to subdue protesters who built roadblocks of twisted metal and burning tires.
Strikers in the capital blocked key highways with burning garbage and leftist guerrillas sparked a blackout in the highlands, but there were no early reports of violent clashes between police and strikers, officials said.
Scientists believe about half of global warming is caused by carbon dioxide gas from fossil fuel burning.
Shipping executives said the 325,000-ton Spanish supertanker Barcelona continued burning and "listing heavily,' two days after the Iraqi raid on the Larak, but the vessel had been beached and was not expected to sink.
On Tuesday night, new troubles erupted when demonstrators set up barricades of burning tires, and police with clubs broke up the crowd, roughed up journalists and seized news film.
Military officials say the rebels are killing Moslems and burning their homes and shops because the Tigers suspect them of supporting the government.
Thousands of firefighters shoveled and sprayed to corral nearly 93,000 acres of burning Idaho timber Saturday, and the weather cooperated with occasional rain showers and lower temperatures.
"I remember waking up and feeling a hot, burning pain in my belly," Mrs. Ellis says.
The burning wreckage of a missing commuter plane with 20 people aboard was sighted in a remote valley on the island of Molokai just before dawn Sunday, a fire department official said.
Yet the most crushing aspect of Auschwitz was not so much the terrifying scale of its ambitions, nor even its mad efficiency in burning 9,000 bodies per day but the daily suffocation of the human soul.