| 词汇 | example_english_torch |
| 释义 | Examples of torchThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In the bedlam, the crowds torched various buildings and vehicles throughout the city. What happens when the beams of light waves from two torches cross over? They turn off their torches and creep about on tiptoe in search of large crickets, following their chirping. In the eighteenth century beggar-boys made a living on city streets lighting people's way with the use of 'links' - or torches of flaming pitch. Onward they pressed their standards and bore down on their opponents, enveloping them in the flames of their own torches. The nightgown and the torches confirm that the scene takes place at night, a fact already established in the dialogue. The stagekeepers were colourfully costumed in light defensive gear, and carried torches and links. Presumably candles were suitable exclusively for indoor performances, while torches and links were used for either indoor or outdoor performances. At night the search was done with torches and headlamps. The issue of tapers versus torches is part of a larger set of problems linked to properties and stage business in this scene. People carried torches or lanterns to light their way and to warn others of their presence. The team lacked torches, metal detectors, an engineer, an archaeologist, a photographer, a field diary, a dig plan and a clear leader. Another aspect that constantly appeared in festivities was light, manifested in a great variety of forms like torches, bon®res and ®reworks. Specifically, he noted the references to the four directions in the same order in both almanacs and the pictures of offerings, serpents, and torches. Talk of the shining of torches and the searching of storage rooms is likely to produce the impression that the epistemological process envisioned was a lengthy one. They could be on horseback or walking through the streets; if they were performing at night, others holding torches accompanied them, so that they could be seen clearly. Women were pursued with flaming torches attached to long spears and burnt to death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we are not allowed properly to light up a shop window, it would be wrong to use oil, coal or wood for making torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a trader wishes to deal both in electrical goods and in torches and batteries he must apply for a licence for both categories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The worst problem—this is where the massive social cost creeps in—is torching. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clause 10 repeals an out-of-date provision which prohibited election expenses on account of bands of music, torches, flags and banners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would then go round with torches to collect the birds and count them, and it would become darker and darker. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The welders had been at work, using propane gas and oxygen and using their blow torches for doing the welding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Men are there ready to apply the torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first time, they left; the second time, they came back and torched the barn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The great fear for those in the dwelling-house is that the people walking about at night with torches might set fire to that building. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is now no restriction on the power of torches either before or after the siren has been sounded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they use the larger torches, they will find that the batteries have a longer life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another is music, bands, torches and the like. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They carried torches, literally, throughout their force area and raised £6,000—more than one fifth of the total. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Often reasonable-looking vehicles are quickly torn to pieces and sometimes torched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Armed police had to use oxyacetylene torches and a hydraulic ram to force their way in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On one occasion flare paths were formed by men lying down and holding torches in the air. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we arrived we found the whole of the approaches to the station packed thick with 30,000 people holding up flaming torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are making special torches, the invention of which they have brought from abroad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As there is a shortage of fuel it would be completely and utterly wrong to remove the prohibition on torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are also gases like carbon-dioxide for soda water or oxyacetylene torches for garages and welding gear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Her conduct was such that torches had to be taken from her by the police on four separate occasions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of that, people go off the pavement into the road, hold up their torches to hail buses and very often in consequence accidents occur. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position in regard to bands of music, torches, flags and banners is altogether different. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that they will drive people out and that we will see properties boarded up, bricked up and torched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Several cars were dismantled and torched; one caravan was gutted and dismantled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is far more information available nowadays, too, about primary battery supply for flash lamps, torches and the like. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another suggestion concerns the compulsory carrying of torches or wearing something white. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The torches of freedom and democracy are blown upon nowadays from many parts of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The middle east remains a powder keg, with people moving around it with lighted torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After a time, abandoned and vandalised vehicles are often torched, and the burned-out remains contribute to the general sense of decline. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many people who have been carrying torches in the black-out during the last five years, have been as doubtful about them as about their petrol lighters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not satisfied that any radical alteration in the existing methods of production and distribution of batteries for hand torches would result in an increase in supplies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Vegetation left in their wake was torched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The burden of the matter is that there are certain household goods normally found in people's houses such as sellotape, cooking gloves, fuse wire, switches, torches and scissors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public are using torches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gangs of thugs currently roam the countryside, intimidating residents and torching the yards of farmers who try to stop them rampaging across fields full of crops. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been boarded and bricked up or torched and left derelict and in decay because good, decent families have been driven out by crime and other inner-city problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do so usually by walking into the middle of the road and waving their torches, which might not be the wisest way of stopping cars at night. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In dimly lit environments, torches or the use of darkvision are required to achieve full visibility. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The pharmacy also sold paper, ink, sealing-wax, dyes, gunpowder, pellets, spices, candles and torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The site was decorated with flame torches and complimenting the band's music were live mime performances. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Coptic homes, shops, businesses, fields and livestock were plundered and torched. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the darkness, the musicians of "la musique militaire" were surrounded by reserve soldiers bearing torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The adjoining cemetery has gates with a rusticated base and panels with inverted torches between pilasters. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many torches now use a hose-supplied gas feed, which is often mains gas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The motor is mounted on the end-effector just ahead of the welding torch and covers a ninety degree arc in front of the torch. The demons burn some "ceptrot" (a kind of torches but with sparks) and the people dance under it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Where possible the presence of fruit bats was confirmed visually, with the aid of a torch, or sunlight directed by a small mirror. The fire started when workmen had been repainting, using blow torches to strip off old paint. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her paintings are created of pigmented beeswax, in a complex process of layering and torching, with a variety of methods in paint application. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the second level were torches with snakes at the base, golden wreaths in the middle and at the top, flames surmounted by eagles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also ordered that torches be thrown at them, burning them to death. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Reliefs show her alongside young female and male attendants with torches, and vessels for purification. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The iron shutters and brick construction meant that torches lit to destroy the building went out without causing damage to the building's contents. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Only a finite number of torches are to be found throughout the game, which effectively acts as a time limit to proceedings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Glowed from her cheek's bright torches, burning there. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Massive cast iron doors had more resistance to acetylene torches than steel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The plasterwork features vines and leaves, and the white marble chimneypiece is decorated with wreaths and torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Torches are needed to walk or cycle through these tunnels (typically provided with hired bikes). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In burning the mountaintop fortress, they also torched the two churches and town. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Moreover, vases in codical style show him, captured, about to be burnt with torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sculpture originally stood in the center of a reflecting pool that had gas torches on its surface. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The demonstrators dressed in clown costume and shone torches in protest. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the mid-1960s, the company started to manufacture electronics and welding torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The houses along the streets were illuminated with torches, and people threw flowers from the window on the horse-drawn carriage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Do any of the torches produce consistently better or worse welds? From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On either side of the pedestal are torches. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Above the second story is a wide frieze with cornucopia, shells, torches, flowers and other foliage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The participants, mainly women, sang songs and litanies and carried candles or torches in their hands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The people watched helplessly as the raiders torched villages, ransacked pagodas, and took away captives. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even glass bead-making torches, which are essentially bunsen burners with an added air pump, can only achieve temperatures of. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Up until that time, all plasma torches had a curve of about 90 degrees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Propane torches are frequently employed to solder copper water pipes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The opposition claimed that government troops torched the bodies after the killings in a bid to conceal their crime. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Upon arrival there was an angry mob waving torches and protesting the arrival of a person of color. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As she says this, citizens from the city have come to her home and thrown torches, setting it on fire. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is said to have introduced some scenic innovations, such as bringing lighted torches on the stage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They named the settlement after the woman who torched their ships. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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