| 词汇 | spark |
| 释义 | spark noun uk /spɑːk/ us /spɑːrk/ sparknoun (FIRE/ELECTRICITY)C2[ C ] a very small piece of fire that flies out from something that is burning, or one that is made by rubbing two hard things together, or a flash of light made by electricity: 火花，火星;电火花 Sparks were flying out of the bonfire and blowing everywhere.篝火中飞溅出很多火星，迸得到处都是。 You can start a fire by rubbing two dry pieces of wood together until you produce a spark.你可以通过摩擦两块干木头直到产生火花来点火。 guruXOOX/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Fire & flame beacon blaze bonfire brand brush fire bushfire conflagration dumpster fire fire fireball firebrand firepit firestorm flare inferno open firephrase pilot post-fire wildfire sparknoun (CAUSE)C2[ S ] a first small event or problem that causes a much worse situation to develop: 导火线，诱因 That small incident was the spark that set off the street riots.那件小事是街头暴乱的导火线。 [ S ] a feeling or quality that causes excitement: 愤怒／灵感／生命的火花（等等） They kept running into each other and eventually realized there was a spark between them.他们不断遇到对方，终于意识到他们之间有火花。 The music is mediocre because there's no spark, no thrill, no unpredictability.音乐是平庸的，因为没有火花，没有刺激，没有出人意料的地方。 His speech was the spark for major riots. Her letter was the spark that drove him to commit murder. Causing things to happen activation actuation agent attribute attribute something to someone breed give rise toidiom hyperstimulate hyperstimulation implement implementation launch pad prompt proximately put someone to somethingidiom Pygmalion effect reactivate realization render spell You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Words meaning small pieces and amounts sparknoun (ELECTRICIAN)UKinformal(alsosparks) an electrician(= a person whose job is to put in and repair electrical wires and equipment): 电工 You need a brickie and a sparks.你需要一名泥瓦匠和一个电工。 Idiomsparks fly spark verb[ T ] uk /spɑːk/ us /spɑːrk/ C2 to cause the start of something, especially an argument or fighting: 引起，导致，触发（尤指争论或打斗） This proposal will almost certainly spark another countrywide debate about immigration.这项提议很可能会再一次在全国范围内引起关于移民的争论。 The recent interest-rate rises have sparked new problems for small businesses.近期利率的上调给小型企业带来了新问题。 The visit of the G20 leaders sparked off(= caused the start of) mass demonstrations.G20国家领导人的到访引发了大规模示威游行。 to make something happen causeFirefighters determined that a campfire spark caused the wildfire. bring aboutMany illnesses are brought about by poor diet and lack of exercise. result inThe fire resulted in damage to their house. lead toReducing speed limits has led to fewer deaths on the motorways. makeThe heat is making me tired. arouseIt's a subject that has aroused a lot of interest. Starting and beginning be in the first flush ofidiom be/get in on the ground flooridiom become begin branch out develop get down to businessidiom grow half-cock here here goes!idiom hit the ground runningidiom motion start (something) off start on something start out start/set/get the ball rollingidiom starting the ground floor wheel spark | American Dictionaryspark noun[ C ] us/spɑrk/ a very small bit of something burning that flies out from a fire, or a flash of light seen when an electric current crosses an open space: Flame, smoke, and sparks climbed into the dark sky. Sparks from the old wiring started the fire. fig.No one can light the spark that will make you a writer (= the thing that causes you to write). A spark of something is a small amount of it: When students show a spark of interest, I try to give them extra encouragement. Idiomsparks fly spark verb[ T ] us/spɑrk/ to start a fire: Downed power lines sparked fires in several parts of town. fig.Parks’s actions in 1955 sparked the Civil Rights Movement. We try to find stories that will spark our students’ imaginations. Examples of sparkspark The most common sources are exploding wires, electrical sparks and solid explosives. Global warming sparks scramble for black gold under retreating ice. The emphasis on heterogeneity sparked debates about longevity and set the stage for the current interest in frailty as individual risk. To make things worse, the collapse of weaker banks can have systemic repercussions if it sparks bank panics that also undermine economically ' 'healthier' ' banks. If the sparks occur after k levels, processor 0 must process k nodes, and the threads are divided between 2k queues. All this provokes reactions in my actors, and their sparks nourish our common working dynamics. The large cache lines transferred on remote reads contain evaluated closures and sparked but unevaluated closures, as expected. The pettiest incidents sparked off brutal killings and the most unsubstantial rumours caused people to flee their homes in their thousands. The food supply was particularly bad, sparking off further unrest. The chain cable rattles out, the noise is deafening and the whole ship is covered in a cloud of dust and sparks. The time interval between the sparks was variable down to 5ps. The growing commercialization, specialization and competition that followed sparked debates that shaped both politics and social institutions into the nineteenth century. In principle, we may suppose that at one extreme the allegorical meaning is merely top-dressing, an occasional implication sparked by a detail. They ran the risk of sparking off a concatenation of uprisings which could elicit an authoritarian response from both domestic and international authorities. Initially start sparks the first n elements and returns a (shared) list from the nth element onwards. See all examples of spark 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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