candle的意思|candle的解释-里氏词典

candle ['kændl.]

n. 蜡烛

vt. 对着光检查

[医] 烛, 烛光

If you go on burning the candle at both ends, you will be ill.
你如果再这样起早贪黑地干活，你会病倒的。
These discoveries are not worth the candle.
这些发现毫无价值。
She is pretty good, but she can't hold a candle to her mother.
她相当不错，但还不能与他母亲相比。

candle

[ noun ]

stick of wax with a wick in the middle

<noun.artifact>

the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

<noun.quantity>

[ verb ]

examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light

<verb.perception>

Candle \Can"dle\, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L.
candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand["e]re
to be white. See {Candid}, and cf. {Chandler}, {Cannel},
{Kindle}.]
1. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick
composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and
used to furnish light.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.

Note: Candles are usually made by repeatedly dipping the
wicks in the melted tallow, etc. (``dipped candles''),
or by casting or running in a mold.

2. That which gives light; a luminary.

By these blessed candles of the night. --Shak.

{Candle nut}, the fruit of a euphorbiaceous shrub ({Aleurites
triloba}), a native of some of the Pacific islands; --
socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright
flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has
many uses.

{Candle power} (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp,
or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard
candle.

{Electric candle}, A modification of the electric arc lamp,
in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to
end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable
for the formation of the arc at the tip; -- called also,
from the name of the inventor, {Jablockoff candle}.

{Excommunication by inch of candle}, a form of
excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to
repent only while a candle burns.

{Not worth the candle}, not worth the cost or trouble.

{Rush candle}, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes,
peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.

{Sale by inch of candle}, an auction in which persons are
allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns
out.

{Standard candle} (Photom.), a special form of candle
employed as a standard in photometric measurements;
usually, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn
at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour.

{To curse by bell, book and candle}. See under {Bell}.

Not even a whisper," he said. "In everybody's hand was a candle.
Chai, 23, wore a pink shirt and sat at a table with white flowers and a candle to commemorate those who died in the pro-democracy movement.
"That's really the Roman candle," he said.
The mostly ultra-Orthodox crowd watched quietly as prayers were chanted and the fifth candle was lighted in all five cities in the first high-tech global Hannukah ceremony.
Around the station there were still some lights, with people gathered like moths around a candle.
One candle is lighted the first day, and a new candle is used each day until eight burn in the menorah.
One candle is lighted the first day, and a new candle is used each day until eight burn in the menorah.
Starting with a customary single candle when the holiday began last Saturday, an additional one was lit on each successive night until the full-orbed tier of eight shines this weekend.
People were urged to place one candle in front of their home for each member of the household as a gesture of peace and national reconciliation.
Some were gaudily painted, others charred by incense and candle smoke.
Oli Asghar, 3, died in a Berkeley apartment fire Thursday that was sparked by a candle.
Clutching a candle and a Lithuanian flag, she recounted how she stood guard outside the parliament all night Wednesday.
In the hut, candle shadows dance on skulls of cows.
It says something about the priorities of Mr Major's government that it thought this game worth the candle.
The probe emerges from the jug with an elongated growth like a candle.
A starting point must be to question whether the game is worth the candle.
Clara's four husbands can't hold a candle to him.
Among those burning the candle all along its length had been Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, and later, Fats Navarro and the Great Speckled Bird, Charlie Parker.
His father held Pat's hand over the candle flame to demonstrate what all eternity in damnation would feel like if Pat didn't think straight.
"I am shocked," said Anne-Marie Diller, also of Gainesvill, who held a votive candle to protest the execution. "I think people came here like they were going to the fair.
Others light a candle or order special plants or flowers.
The pins of such legendary icons as Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Lamour would not hold a candle to those of the super-models of today.
Smuggling has been an economic cornerstone of the area for years. Horses and guns were the first contraband; later, smugglers took candelilla leaves from the United States back into Mexico to boil and turn into candle wax.
"It goes pop," he says. "It's an immediate burst into the air, but like a Roman candle, it also tends to fall quickly.
"I admired him very much," said a French philosophy student who lit a candle at the graveside but refused to give his name. "I've read most of his works and found them very moving.
He said he would light a memorial candle in the window of his residence that night.
Most ready-made versions of this lovely sauce bear little relationship to the real thing; none holds a candle to this. Made by a small Ligurian producer steadfast to tradition, it includes nothing but basil, extra virgin olive oil, garlic and pinenuts.
Police did not interfere today as the marchers went to the Wailing Wall at the foot of the mount and lit a candle to mark Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, Israel radio reported.
It can soldier on for several more years yet, either to a new model-led revival or until the families feel the competitive pressures are such that the game is no longer worth the candle. Not only the German industry is suffering.

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