Torch

(noun.) a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.

(verb.) burn maliciously, as by arson; 'The madman torched the barns'.

弗里达编辑

• Kindle the torch, daughter of Hengist! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Pass that torch slowly along these walls, that I may see them, said Defarge to the turnkey. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Learning has very often and very aptly been compared to a torch passed from hand to hand. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I had hastened along one of them for some little distance when suddenly the faint light of the torch disappeared from behind me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It came from a torch in the hand of one of a party of four green warriors, who were coming rapidly down the corridor toward me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Boats were putting off, torches were lighting up, people were rushing tumultuously to the water's edge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I left a guard to protect this treasure of dust; and ordered perpetual torches to be burned around. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their only available light for going deeply into the caverns would be torches. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Light this halt of the pilgrims by the wild red flames of cressets and torches, streaming up at intervals from every part of the innumerable throng. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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