burn sth
及物用法,表示烧毁、烧掉某物。过去式和过去分词可用 burned 或 burnt。
He burned the old letters in the fireplace.
他把旧信件放在壁炉里烧掉了。
烧坏;烧伤;烫伤;灼伤;晒伤;烧制;烧出;发光;亮着
To be on fire or to set something on fire.
使被火吞噬。
To cause to be consumed by fire.
被火或火焰吞噬。
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
过热以致无法使用。
To overheat so as to make unusable.
变得过热到无法使用。
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
通过使用火或灼热来制造或生产。
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
发光;被点亮
To give off light; to be lit up.
用热或化学物质伤害(人或动物)
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
烧灼
To cauterize.
晒伤
To sunburn.
像火或热一样消耗、损坏或改变状态
To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
感到热,例如因尴尬
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
使与氧或其他活性剂结合并释放热量;消耗;氧化
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
将数据写入永久存储介质,如光盘或ROM芯片
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
在转码时将字幕嵌入视频内容,使字幕成为图像的一部分
To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).
浪费(时间);浪费金钱或其他资源
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
在某些游戏中,接近隐藏的目标物
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
意外触碰到移动的石头
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
在二十一点游戏中,用一对牌换另一对,或发一张废牌
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
使图像的某一区域变暗(在暗房处理照片时,通过增加该区域的曝光来实现)
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).
在核聚变反应中转变为另一种元素,尤其是在恒星中
To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
破坏(特工的掩护故事)
To compromise (an agent's cover story).
敲诈
To blackmail.
一般现在时
The wood burns easily.
这木头容易燃烧。
一般过去时
She burned her hand on the stove.
她在炉子上烧伤了手。
现在完成时
He has burnt all the letters.
他已经烧掉了所有的信。
过去式可用burned或burnt,过去分词常用burnt。
The fire burned brightly in the fireplace.
火在壁炉里明亮地燃烧。
用法提示:burn作为不及物动词,表示燃烧的状态。
I burned my finger when I touched the hot pan.
我碰到热锅时烧伤了手指。
用法提示:burned作为及物动词,表示烧伤某人或某物。
She burnt the old letters in the garden.
她在花园里烧掉了旧信。
用法提示:burnt为burn的过去时,表示烧毁某物。
及物用法,表示烧毁、烧掉某物。过去式和过去分词可用 burned 或 burnt。
He burned the old letters in the fireplace.
他把旧信件放在壁炉里烧掉了。
表示身体部位被某物烫伤,用 on 引出热源。
I burned my hand on the hot pan.
我的手被热锅烫伤了。
不及物用法,表示建筑物被完全烧毁;也可说 burn sth down,表示烧毁某物。
The old factory burned down last night.
那座旧工厂昨晚被烧毁了。
不及物用法,主语是自己燃烧的东西。
The fire burned all night.
火整夜燃烧着。
scorch 多指高温使表面焦黄或变色,损伤较浅;不能表示‘把整座房子烧毁’或‘身体深度烧伤’。
char 强调表面被烧到变黑甚至炭化,程度比 scorch 重,常用于烧烤或火灾后的描述。
singe 指极轻的表层灼烧,常燎掉毛发或衣物表面,不会把东西烧毁。
sear 强调用很高的温度快速灼烧表面,烹饪中常指煎封肉表面,比 burn 更专门。
scald 专指热液或蒸汽造成的烫伤;普通‘烧伤/烫伤’仍用 burn。
grammar · medium
易错句子Yesterday I burn my hand on the stove.
正确表达Yesterday I burned my hand on the stove.
汉语动词本身没有时态变化,“昨天”已经说明是过去的事;英语里叙述过去某个时间一次完成的动作必须用过去式,所以 burn 要变成过去式 burned(英式也可拼作 burnt),不能保留原形。
grammar · medium
易错句子Look, the candle is burned.
正确表达Look, the candle is burning.
要表达“蜡烛正在燃烧”这个正在进行的动作,英语用现在进行时 be + burning;is burned 是“被烧掉、烧毁”的被动态或结果状态,说的是已经烧完了,不能表示此刻正在燃烧。
grammar · medium
易错句子I burned on my hand while cooking.
正确表达I burned my hand while cooking.
汉语说“我手上烫伤了”,习惯把受伤部位当话题并加方位词“上”;英语中 burn 在这里是及物动词,受伤的身体部位直接作宾语,前面不加介词 on。
义项:针对 burn 的“燃烧/使燃烧”义,extinguish 表示使火焰停止燃烧;仅用于火或发光物,不能用于“烧伤”义。
义项:针对 burn 作不及物动词的“燃烧/发光”义,go out 表示火或灯自行停止燃烧;与及物的 extinguish 相对。
烧毁;烧为平地
The old warehouse burned down in the fire.
那座旧仓库在火灾中烧毁了。
烧坏;烧毁
The motor burned out after hours of use.
电机运转数小时后烧坏了。
烧掉;消耗
The rocket burns up most of its fuel during launch.
火箭在发射过程中烧掉大部分燃料。
消耗卡路里
Running burns a lot of calories.
跑步会消耗大量卡路里。
熬夜工作;开夜车
She burned the midnight oil to finish the report.
她熬夜工作以完成报告。
熬夜工作或学习
She burned the midnight oil to finish her thesis.
她熬夜赶论文。
断绝关系或后路
Don't burn your bridges when you leave the company.
离开公司时不要断绝后路。
过度消耗精力
He's been burning the candle at both ends to meet the deadline.
为了赶上截止日期,他一直在过度消耗精力。
与其悄然隐退,不如燃烧殆尽。(尼尔·杨歌曲,科特·柯本遗书引用)
She burned all the old letters.
她烧掉了所有旧信件。
我坠入了一个燃烧的火圈。(约翰尼·卡什歌曲《Ring of Fire》)
The toast is burning.
吐司烤焦了。
Choose the next layer that will help you use burn with more confidence.
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烧掉;消耗掉多余能量
Let's go for a walk to burn off that meal.
我们去散散步消耗掉那顿饭的能量吧。