torched

英 [tɔːtʃt]

美 [tɔːrtʃt]

v.  放火烧，纵火烧(建筑物或汽车)
torch的过去式

COCA.42484

柯林斯词典

• 手电筒
  Atorchis a small electric light which is powered by batteries and which you can carry in your hand.

in AM, use 美国英语用 flashlight


• N-COUNT 火把;火炬
  Atorchis a long stick with burning material at one end, used to provide light or to set things on fire.
  1. They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.
     他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
  2. …a torch-lit march for peace.
     要求和平的火炬示威游行
• See also:The gang worked for up to ten hours with acetylene torches to open the vault.blowtorch
• VERB 纵火焚烧;放火烧
  If someonetorchesa building or vehicle, they set fire to it deliberately.
  1. The rioters torched the local library...
     暴乱者放火烧了当地的图书馆。
  2. Cars and trucks have been torched, bottles and bricks thrown.
     轿车、卡车被放火焚烧，瓶子与砖块乱砸乱飞。
• PHRASE 暗恋;对…单相思
  If you say that someoneis carrying a torch forsomeone else, you mean that they secretly admire them or love them.
  1. He has always carried a torch for Barbara.
     他一直单恋芭芭拉。
• PHRASE (为…)奋战;(为…)奋斗
  If you say that someone iscarrying the torchof a particular belief or movement, you mean that they are working hard to ensure that it is not forgotten and continues to grow stronger.
  1. This group aims to carry the torch for the millions who demonstrated and the thousands who died...
     这个团体旨在将游行示威的数百万人与死去的数千人的信念传承下去。
  2. Since his death in 1985 his widow has carried the torch of his Stalinist legacy.
     自从他 1985 年去世以来，他的遗孀一直致力于保存和发扬他的斯大林主义遗产。

双语例句

• A hotel founded with the help of a government foundation was also torched.
  在某一政府基金会帮助下成立的一家酒店也被烧毁。
• LF she found out that you torched that place for her.
  如果她发现你为她烧了那个地方。
• The British had torched the White House and Capitol in Washington and they headed north to Baltimore.
  英国人当时焚毁了华盛顿的白宫和国会大厦，他们还占领了北巴尔的摩。
• They smashed a SID door to get in and then torched the warehouse when they had taken what they wanted.
  他们破边门而入，在取走了他们所要的东西后将仓库付之一炬。
• Angry youths, supporters of the defeated Mr Buhari, have torched homes, churches and cars, and set up burning barricades in towns and cities across northern Nigeria.
  愤怒的年轻人们，落败的候选人布哈里的支持者在尼日利亚北部城镇焚烧房屋，教堂和汽车，并设置了燃烧着的路障。
• Now I wish I hadn't torched our wedding photos.
  我真希望没有烧掉我们的结婚照。
• The rioters torched the local library
  暴乱者放火烧了当地的图书馆。
• Even before the trial the manor house of the baron was torched.
  还没有开庭审判，那个地主庄园就被烧毁了。
• Bryant is second in the NBA in scoring and has torched the Rockets in recent meetings.
  布莱恩特是NBA得分第二高的球员，而且还曾经在最近的采访中赞扬过火箭队。
• They cleaned it out pretty good before they torched it.
  他们烧掉它之前已经彻底地清理过了。