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candle n.蜡烛；烛形物vt.对光检查 (1) 他把蜡烛放在银烛台上。(2) 蜡烛被风吹灭了。(3) 一支孤烛使黑暗的房间亮了起来。(4) 她相当不错，但还不能与他母亲相比。(5) 这些发现毫无价值。(6) 你如果再这样起早贪黑地干活，你会病倒的。(7) 为了查明鸡蛋是否新鲜，我们最好将鸡蛋一一对着光检查一遍。

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英 ['kændl] 美 ['kændl] (1) He put the candle on the silver candlestick.(2) The candle was blown out by the wind.(3) A solitary candle lightened the darkness of the room.(4) She is pretty good, but she can't hold a candle to her mother.(5) These discoveries are not worth the candle.(6) If you go on burning the candle at both ends, you will be ill.(7) To make sure that the eggs are fresh, we had better candle them one by one. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]蜡烛 A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light. The bedroom was lit by a single candle.卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。2[PHRASE 短语]一根蜡烛两头烧；起早摸黑地干；过度耗费精力 If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.   [V inflects]3[PHRASE 短语]远不如；比…逊色许多 If you say that one person or thing can't hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second.   [V inflects]Girls today can't hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties.如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。4[PHRASE 短语]不值得；划不来 If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.   [V inflects]  [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]

英语单词	candle
英美音标	英 ['kændl] 美 ['kændl]
中文释义	n.蜡烛；烛形物 vt.对光检查
英语例句	(1) He put the candle on the silver candlestick. (2) The candle was blown out by the wind. (3) A solitary candle lightened the darkness of the room. (4) She is pretty good, but she can't hold a candle to her mother. (5) These discoveries are not worth the candle. (6) If you go on burning the candle at both ends, you will be ill. (7) To make sure that the eggs are fresh, we had better candle them one by one.
中文例句	(1) 他把蜡烛放在银烛台上。 (2) 蜡烛被风吹灭了。 (3) 一支孤烛使黑暗的房间亮了起来。 (4) 她相当不错，但还不能与他母亲相比。 (5) 这些发现毫无价值。 (6) 你如果再这样起早贪黑地干活，你会病倒的。 (7) 为了查明鸡蛋是否新鲜，我们最好将鸡蛋一一对着光检查一遍。
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]蜡烛 A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light. The bedroom was lit by a single candle. 卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。 2 [PHRASE 短语]一根蜡烛两头烧；起早摸黑地干；过度耗费精力 If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done. [V inflects] 3 [PHRASE 短语]远不如；比…逊色许多 If you say that one person or thing can't hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second. [V inflects] Girls today can't hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties. 如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。 4 [PHRASE 短语]不值得；划不来 If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it. [V inflects] [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]

Candle Hold Worth Phrase 短语 [V Inflects Wick