英汉词典

candle 基本解释

• n. 蜡烛；烛光；烛形物
• vt. 对着光检查

candle 词态变化

candle 中文词源

来自词根cand, 照明，进一步来自PIE *skai, 照耀，见shine.

candle 英文词源

candle

candle: [OE] Candle is one of the earliest English borrowings from Latin. It probably arrived with Christianity at the end of the 6th century, and is first recorded in a gloss from around the year 700. Latin candēla was a derivative of the verb candēre ‘be white, glow’, also the source of English candid and related to incandescent and incense. Candelabrum [19] is a Latin derivative. The Christian feast of Candlemas [OE] (February 2) gets its name from the blessing of church candles on that day.
=> candelabrum, candid, incandescent, incense

candle (n.)

Old English candel "lamp, lantern, candle," an early ecclesiastical borrowing from Latin candela "a light, torch, candle made of tallow or wax," from candere "to shine," from PIE root *kand- "to glow, to shine, to shoot out light" (cognates: Sanskrit cand- "to give light, shine," candra- "shining, glowing, moon;" Greek kandaros "coal;" Welsh cann "white;" Middle Irish condud "fuel").

Candles were unknown in ancient Greece (where oil lamps sufficed), but common from early times among Romans and Etruscans. Candles on birthday cakes seems to have been originally a German custom. To hold a candle to originally meant "to help in a subordinate capacity," from the notion of an assistant or apprentice holding a candle for light while the master works (compare Old English taporberend "acolyte"). To burn the candle at both ends is recorded from 1730.

candle 词组搭配

candle 英文释义

1. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

2. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

candle 双语例句

1. The tramp produced a stump of candle from his deep pockets.

流浪汉从深口袋里掏出了一截蜡烛。

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2. Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears.

她假装点蜡烛，避开他消失了。

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3. The light from my candle threw his elongated shadow on the walls.

我的烛光将他拉长的影子投射在墙上。

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4. Another of his lucky finds was a pair of candle-holders.

他的另一个幸运发现是一对烛台。

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5. 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。

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candle 实用场景例句

His singing can't hold a candle to Pavarotti's.

他的演唱无法与帕瓦罗蒂媲美。

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The bedroom was lit by a single candle.

卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。

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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。

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No one can hold a candle to him when it comes to playing the guitar.

说到弹吉他,谁也比不上他.

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I can't burn the candle at both ends forever.

我不能永远这么过分的消耗精力.

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He hadn't had a bad education himself, but he couldn't hold a candle to her.

他自己受过的教育并不差, 可是跟她一比就简直没门了.

辞典例句

How high that highest candle lights the dark.

照亮黑暗的高高烛火多么高贵.

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The breeze flared the candle.

微风吹得烛光不定.

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He struck a match to light the candle.

他划了一根火柴要点亮蜡烛.

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A great torch may be lighted at a little candle.

小蜡烛点亮大火炬.

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A hinged tray folds out to hold a candle.

一个铰链的盘子突出来形成烛台.

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The wind blew out the candle.

风吹灭了蜡烛.

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The flame of the burning candle soon went out.

蜡烛的火焰很快就熄灭了.

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He struck a light and set the candle going.

他擦了一根火柴把蜡烛点亮.

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The candle sputtered out.

蜡烛噼啪爆响着熄灭了.

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The candle flame flicked and went out.

烛火摇曳着,随即熄灭了.

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The bottom of the candle is fused with its holder.

蜡烛的底部和烛台熔合在一起.

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The candle flickered and then went out.

一开始蜡烛摇曳不定,然后就灭了.

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A teacher's work is often compared to a candle.

教师的工作常被比作蜡烛.

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The candle grew down until only an inch was left.

蜡烛越烧越短,最后只剩下一英寸.

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The candle flames wavered.

烛光闪动着.

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The candle was blown out by the wind.

蜡烛被风吹灭了.

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Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle.

熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。

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After drawing the curtains, she lit a candle.

拉上窗帘后，她点燃了蜡烛。

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Tenzin snuffed out the candle.

丹津掐灭了蜡烛。

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The tramp produced a stump of candle from his deep pockets.

流浪汉从深口袋里掏出了一截蜡烛。

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Under the pretence of lighting a candle, she evades him and disappears.

她假装点蜡烛，避开他消失了。

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The light from my candle threw his elongated shadow on the walls.

我的烛光将他拉长的影子投射在墙上。

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The candle had burned right down.

这根蜡烛完全烧尽了。

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