candles是什么意思？

candles

• n. 蜡烛( candle的名词复数 )；

例句

• She snuffed out the candles. 她吹灭了蜡烛。
• Five candles lighted up the bedroom. 五支蜡烛照亮了卧室。
• The wax from the two candles fused as they burned. 两根蜡烛上的蜡燃烧时熔化在一起。
• At the craft fair the children were shown how to dip candles. 在工艺博览会上给孩子们表演如何制造蜡烛。
• The candles on the Christmas tree lit up the room. 圣诞树上的蜡烛照亮了房间.
• This is beautifully decorated with colored paper, cones, candles, and miniature colored flags or pennants. 把这个用彩纸、金色的松果 、 蜡烛以及小型的彩旗或者三角旗装饰起来非常漂亮.
• Daylight quenches the candles and the birds begin to sing. 日光压倒了烛光,小鸟开始歌唱.
• Tibetans are forsaking dancing and dinner parties for vigils yak - butter candles and the chanting of prayers. XZ人 取消了守夜的舞蹈和宴会,取而代之的是点上酥油蜡烛和祈福诵经.
• A franchised store selling homely products, plush toys, scented candles, pet products ect. 一家专卖家居小单品 、 毛绒玩具 、 香薰蜡烛 、 宠物用品等工艺品的特色小店.
• Blow out the candles and make a wish. 吹蜡烛许愿吧。

英语四级真题

The reaction to his death, with people leaving candles and flowers outside Apple stores and politicians singing praises on the internet, is proof that Mr Jobs had become something much more significant than just a clever money-maker.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  蜡烛
  A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.
  例句
  The bedroom was lit by a single candle. 卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。
• PHRASE
  一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力
  If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.
• PHRASE
  远不如;比…逊色许多
  If you say that one person or thing can't hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second.
  例句
  Girls today can't hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties. 如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。
• PHRASE
  不值得;划不来
  If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.