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单词

wildfire

读音
ˈwaɪldfaɪər
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"Wildfire" 是一个复合单词,由 "wild" 和 "fire" 组成。"Wild" 来自古英语的 "wilddeoran" 意为“野性的,狂野的”,而 "fire" 来自古英语的 "fyr"表示 "火"。

释义

n. 野火,烈火;希腊火;高度易燃物质,燃烧剂;鬼火 [ 复数 wildfires ]

例句

A wildfire can destroy everything in its way.
一场野火可能会破坏一切。
On May 1st, 2016, in Alberta, Canada, a wildfire destroyed an area of nearly 700 square miles.
2016年5月1日,在加拿大阿尔伯塔省,一场野火烧毁了近700平方英里的区域。
These stories are spreading like wildfire through the city.
这些故事正迅速传遍整座城市。

强化记忆

你可以通过这样的方式记住它:将 'wildfire' 分解为 "wild" 和 "fire",即“野生的”与“火”,结合起来就形象地描绘出了“野火”的场景。“Wildfire”一词源于早期英语,在中世纪时,这个词曾被用来指代一种高度燃烧的,无法控制的火焰。在现代,"wildfire" 指的是无法控制的自然火灾,尤其是在像加利福尼亚这样的干燥地区,野火频发,并且对人类和自然环境都造成了巨大的影响。

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that killed some 50 to 100 million people.It spread like wildfireand some died within hours of developing symptoms.
they changeand they spread like wildfire.They are as old as our remembered history.
I once lost everything I owned in the world,every last thing, in a wildfire.But in time, I came to see that it was that seeming loss
for the person too.And the act spread like wildfire.It's a testament, I think, to the seductive appeal
rather than from the Xinhua News Agency.And this stuff rippled like wildfire.For a while there
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