英语释义

1. to deliberately cause something to burn

片语

To set on fire使燃烧或打火

Set The Fire轰动

ignite set on fire点燃

set a fire点火

set on fire焚烧；使情绪激昂

set t fire纵火

set off fire works放烟花

set t fire to使燃烧

英汉例句

• some insignificant remark or action, not getting a satisfactory reply to a question or just moodiness are enough to set fire and cause anger, snappy remarks, arguments and even physical fights.

  一些无伤大雅的语句或行为、没有得到满意的答复、或只是自己情绪变化，都有可能是导火线，引起怒火烧身、唇枪舌剑，甚至大动干戈。

• are you willing to set fire to the facade?

  你愿意把这面墻烧掉，走出来吗？

• militants attacked the truck depot near the city of peshawar before dawn, hurling gasoline bombs which set fire to the tankers, according to the report.

  报道称，武装分子在黎明前袭击了这个位于白沙瓦附近的补给站，他们用汽油弹点燃了5辆油罐车，车上满载将提供给阿富汗北约部队的油料。

• protesters set fire to government building and burned his likeness in effigy.

  抗议者点燃了政府大楼和卡扎菲的肖像。

• mr samoilenko says those behind the illegal logging set fire to his car and then tried to burn down his parents「 house, but failed.

  samoilenko告诉我说那些非法伐木业背后的黑手点火烧掉了他的车，并企图烧毁他父母的房子，但是没能得逞。

• a boy set fire to a firework, and it burned on the sticks.

  一个男孩点燃了一个爆竹，爆竹在木柴上燃烧起来。

• and i will set fire in egypt: sin shall have great pain, and no shall be rent asunder, and noph shall have distresses daily.

  我必在埃及中使火着起。训必大大痛苦。

• it will be possible to pour petrol on the ground, watch it spread out and then set fire to it.

  将由可能把汽油泼洒在路面，看着它四处横流，然后一把火让它燃烧起来。

• a group calling itself the earth liberation front set fire to several hummer dealerships in the us during the early part of the decade.

  本世纪初，美国一个自称为「地球解放阵线」的团体对几家悍马经销店纵火。

• an australian nudist who tried to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider」s nest ended up with badly burned buttocks, emergency officials said monday.

  本周一，据澳大利亚处理突发事件的官员介绍，一位裸体主义者试图放火烧一只致命漏斗网蜘蛛的窝，结果自己的臀部被严重烧伤。

• three people were killed when protesters set fire to a bank.

  游行抗议者在银行纵火，造成三人死亡。

• ethnic serbs responded with gunfire, killing one kosovar policeman, and later set fire to a border checkpoint.

  塞族人以开火回应，杀死一名科索沃警察，随后又放火点燃了一个边境检查站。

• get two bulls for us. let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.

  当给我们两只牛犊，巴力的先知可以挑选一只，切成块子，放在柴上，不要点火。

• this month jennifer balch will head into the amazon rainforest of mato grosso state, in brazil.she intends to set fire to it and find out what happens.

  珍妮弗-巴尔什这个月即将深入巴西马托格罗索州的亚马逊雨林，她打算在那来一场人工火灾，然后看看会发生什么。

• in kaduna, they set fire to the house of namadi sambo, the vice-president.

  在卡杜纳，他们也纵火烧了副总统纳马迪?桑博的房子。

• there have also been a number of incidents in the birmingham area, where youths broke shop windows and set fire to cars.

  伯明翰也发生了几起事故，年轻人打破了商店玻璃，纵火点燃汽车。

• most brides would sooner set fire to the church and postpone the ceremony than to get married without something old, new, borrowed and blue.

  没有穿戴旧的、新的、借的、蓝色的四样东西，大多数新娘宁愿马上放火烧掉教堂、推迟婚期也不愿意结婚。

• if they decided to set fire to a tramp, for instance, i would love them less – a lot less, in fact.

  事实上，假如他们要对一个流浪汉放火，我就不会那么爱他们。

• when he welcomed huang gai「s boat, he set fire to cao cao」s camp.

  结果在他迎接黄盖的船队的时候，黄盖引火船沖入曹营，一起一场大火。

• a witness said the man had set fire to flammable liquid in a milk carton and tossed it into a carriage.

  一位目击者说，这名男子将装在牛奶纸盒内的可燃液体点着，然后把纸盒投向一节车厢。

• the french, who were masters of the chapel for a moment, and were then dislodged, set fire to it.

  法军在这礼拜堂里曾一度做过主人，继又被击退，便放了一把火。

• french naval aircraft have bombed and set fire to oil stocks near venice. they also dropped leaflets on rome.

  法国海军航空兵轰炸并烧毁了威尼斯附近的油库，他们还在罗马空投了传单。

• the blaze reportedly began after two prisoners in a fight set fire to their mattresses.

  据报道，这次火灾是由于两名犯人发生口角并点燃对方的床垫而引起。

• it said that during the course of the incident, some workers set fire to the community centre at the facility, which employs 7,000 people.

  该公司表示，在事件过程中，一些工人在厂区活动中心点起了火。 该厂雇有7000名工人。