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scorch something
The sun scorched the grass.
太阳把草晒焦了。
烧焦；灼伤；烫焦
scorches — third person singular of scorch
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烧焦；灼伤；烫焦
To burn the surface of something so that it becomes discolored.
The sun scorched the grass.
太阳把草晒焦了。
烧焦某物表面使其变色
To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
用高温或火使枯萎、干枯或毁坏,尤指对敌方实行焦土政策
To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
高速移动(字面或比喻上,快得仿佛在地面留下焦痕)
To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
燃烧；用火或像火一样烧毁
To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
scorch
Base
原形
scorches
3rd person
第三人称单数
scorching
-ing
现在分词
scorched
Past
过去式
scorched
Past participle
过去分词
The sun scorches the grass.
太阳晒焦了草地。
I scorched my shirt by accident.
我不小心烫焦了我的衬衫。
The drought has scorched the crops.
干旱已经烤焦了庄稼。
规则动词，过去式和过去分词同形。
The hot iron scorched the shirt, leaving a brown mark.
热熨斗把衬衫烧焦了，留下一个棕色的痕迹。
The drought scorched the grass, turning it yellow.
干旱使草枯萎，变成了黄色。
Be careful not to scorch the cake when baking it.
烤蛋糕时小心别烤焦了。
The sun scorched the grass.
太阳把草晒焦了。
The bread scorched in the toaster.
面包在烤面包机里烤焦了。
用于比喻义，指严厉批评或讽刺。
She scorched him with her sarcastic remarks.
她用讽刺的话挖苦了他。
Not this
The iron scorched on the shirt.
Use this
The iron scorched the shirt.
scorch 是及物动词，后面直接跟烧焦的对象，不需要介词 on。
Not this
He scorched his tongue with hot tea.
Use this
He scalded his tongue with hot tea.
scorch 指干热造成的烧焦，而烫伤要用 scald，后者针对热液体或蒸汽。
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焦土政策
The retreating army adopted a scorched-earth policy.
撤退的军队采取了焦土政策。
把衬衫烫焦
She scorched her favorite shirt with the iron.
她用熨斗把自己最喜欢的衬衫烫焦了。
酷热；灼热
The flowers wilted in the scorching heat.
花朵在酷热中枯萎了。
烧焦大地；使土地焦枯
The wildfire scorched the landscape for miles.
野火烧焦了绵延数英里的土地。
飞驰而过；疾驰而过
A black car scorched past us on the highway.
一辆黑色汽车在高速公路上从我们身边飞驰而过。
焦土；焦土政策（毁掉一切以阻止敌人前进）
The general ordered a scorched earth retreat, burning villages and crops.
将军下令实行焦土政策撤退，烧毁了村庄和庄稼。
以压倒性优势击败竞争对手
The startup's new app scorched the competition within months.
这家初创公司的新应用在几个月内就以压倒性优势击败了竞争对手。
在赛道上极速飞驰
The young sprinter scorched the track and broke the world record.
这位年轻的短跑选手在赛道上极速飞驰，打破了世界纪录。
Use scorches naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
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scorch 音近“烤去”，联想火烤表面使其变色焦黑；也可想“焦土政策”与疾驰带火，记住“烤焦”这个核心画面。
语域：mixed 常见场景：frying or ironing accidents、wildfire or heat damage、informal speech about moving very fast、military 'scorched earth' operations scorch 的语域随义项变化：表示“烧焦表面”时语气中性，多用于烹饪、熨烫或火灾等日常场景；表示“焦土”时偏正式或军事语境；而表示“疾驰”时则多用于非正式口语。请根据具体语境选择相应语气。
Torch (/tɔːtʃ/) and porch (/pɔːtʃ/) rhyme with scorch and share the -orch spelling. Search (/sɜːtʃ/), birch (/bɜːtʃ/) and perch (/pɜːtʃ/) look similar but have the /ɜː/ vowel, and starch (/stɑːtʃ/) has /ɑː/, so these four do not rhyme with scorch.
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