burn

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vt. 烧, 烧毁, 烧伤 vi. 燃烧, 发热, 烧毁 n. 烧伤, 烙印

发音

UK /bɜːn/
其它 /bɔːn/
US /bɝn/

词形变化

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别名

born burne

教材释义与例句

动词

燃烧;烧毁,灼伤;激起…的愤怒

to destroy or damage something with fire

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

    烧伤

    可数 不可数

    She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

    He burnt his hand in the fire.

  2. 2.

    A sensation resembling such an injury.

    可数 不可数

    chili burn from eating hot peppers

  3. 3.

    The act of burning something with fire.

    可数 不可数

    They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.

  4. 4.

    An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  5. 5.

    An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).

    可数 俚语 不可数
  6. 6.

    Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

    可数 不可数

    One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

  7. 7.

    Tobacco.

    英国 俚语 不可数 可数
  8. 8.

    The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    可数 不可数 计算机 工程 数学
  9. 9.

    The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

    可数 不可数

    They have a good burn.

  10. 10.

    A disease in vegetables; brand.

    不可数 可数
  11. 11.

    The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.

    可数 不可数 航空 商务 工程
  12. 1.

    A large stream.

    苏格兰
v. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To cause to be consumed by fire.

    燃烧

    及物

    He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

  2. 2.

    To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

    不及物

    He watched the house burn.

  3. 3.

    To overheat so as to make unusable.

    及物

    He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

  4. 4.

    To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

    不及物

    The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

  5. 5.

    To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

    及物

    to burn a hole; to burn letters into a block

  6. 6.

    To give off light; to be lit up.

    不及物

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados I knew that if a light was burning I should be able to see the window lit up from the yard at the back, although the gas itself would be out of sight.

  7. 7.

    To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

    及物

    She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

  8. 8.

    To cauterize.

    及物 医学
  9. 9.

    To sunburn.

    及物/不及物

    She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

  10. 10.

    To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

    及物

    to burn the mouth with pepper

  11. 11.

    To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

    不及物

    The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.

    In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake / For hete & cold I burne & ſhake / For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake / What menys thys

  12. 12.

    To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

    及物 化学

    to burn iron in oxygen

    A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.

  13. 13.

    To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

    过时 化学

    Copper burns in chlorine.

  14. 14.

    To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    及物 计算机 工程 数学

    We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

  15. 15.

    To betray.

    俚语 及物

    The informant burned him.

  16. 16.

    To insult or defeat.

    俚语 及物

    I just burned you again.

  17. 17.

    To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

    及物

    We have an hour to burn.

    The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

    Oh, why don’t you save all the money you earn? / If I didn’t eat, I’d have money to burn.

  18. 18.

    In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

    You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!

  19. 19.

    To accidentally touch a moving stone.

    不及物 体育 游戏
  20. 20.

    In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

    及物 游戏
  21. 21.

    To make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).

    艺术 媒体
  22. 22.

    To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

    不及物 物理
  23. 23.

    To discard.

    不及物 俚语 游戏
  24. 24.

    To shoot someone with a firearm.

    俚语 及物
  25. 25.

    To compromise (an agent's cover story).

    及物 政治 军事
  26. 26.

    To blackmail.

    及物 政治 军事
  27. 27.

    To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

    美国 不及物 俚语
  28. 28.

    To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).

    及物 计算机 工程 数学 引申义

    My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English bernen (collateral form of brennen), from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew. Cognate with Cimbrian prönnan (“to burn”), Dutch barnen, branden (“to burn”), German brinnen (“to burn”), Luxembourgish brennen (“to burn”), Vilamovian brīn (“to burn”), Yiddish ברענען (brenen, “to burn”), Danish brænde (“to burn”), Faroese, Icelandic brenna (“to burn”), Norwegian Bokmål brenne (“to burn”), Norwegian Nynorsk brenna, brenne (“to burn”), Swedish brinna (“to burn”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (brinnan, “to burn”). See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

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