| 词汇 | kindle |
| 释义 | kindle verb uk /ˈkɪn.dəl/ us /ˈkɪn.dəl/ kindleverb (FIRE)[ T ] to cause a fire to start burning by lighting paper, wood, etc.点燃 to start burning catch fireA washing machine caught fire, sending the whole building up in flames. catch alightHe was badly burned when his clothing caught alight. kindleWe set up our tents and kindled a fire. burst into flames Two men had a miracle escape when their helicopter burst into flames. combustOily rags placed near an open flame could spontaneously combust. igniteThe gasoline ignited and the house was engulfed in flames. Starting fires arsonist bellows combust fire fire starter firelighter ignite ignition kindling light make make something up put put something out reignition set fire to something/someoneidiom set something/someone on fireidiom strike tinder torch kindleverb (FEELING)[ Toften passive ]literary to cause strong feelings or ideas in someone: 激起（热情等）;使产生想法 Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her.她祖母给她讲述的精彩故事激发了她的想象力。 Inspiration and inspiring anti-creative apostolic blue-sky breathe breathe (new) life into sthidiom creative divergent divergently engage enthral entrance grip incentivize muse Promethean re-engage show show (someone) the wayidiom stimulating You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Inspiring feelings in others kindle | American Dictionarykindle verb[ T ] us/ˈkɪn·dəl/ to cause a fire to start burning: fig. Great literature kindled their imaginations (= made them work). Examples of kindlekindle Interventions early in the course of kindling may reverse this course. Predictably, local risings were sporadic, but once the spark had been kindled, conditions were clearly ripe for revolt. His own interest had been kindled by a recent exchange in which he, indeed, felt "ripped off" by one of his publishers. The second is the way of illumination, in which the mind by contemplation is kindled to the burning of love. In fact, the passions kindled by the sight of difference are depicted as so offensive, frightening, and unacceptable, that they have to be repressed. In the architecture of our time, such hopes are only rarely kindled. Left politics has provided him with a more appropriate theatre for kindling more fearsome verbal fires. I secretly kicked my wet boots behind the bundle of kindling as she took off her heavy garments. Apoptosis of hippocampal neurons after amygdala kindled seizures. Persisting resolve amid exigent constraints kindles the unfolding of uplifting possibles. He is taken to his palace, when his doctor orders a fire to be hastily kindled, to warm one who is already stricken with the chill of death. In related fashion, scholars lament the manner in which patronage parties organized voters into politics: kindling distributive interests and ethno-cultural identities and submerging more fundamental material and ideological differences. Such strain could easily kindle the kind of staff attitudes that had led to neglect of patients in some of the other large hospitals. Stressful life events and previous episodes in the etiology of major depression in women : an evaluation of the ' kindling ' hypothesis. Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures. See all examples of kindle 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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