词汇精选：burning的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

adj.

燃烧的，着火的

例句：

He was kept from entering the burning house by his neighbors.

他的邻居阻止他进入熊熊燃烧的房子。

例句：

He's walking in the burning desert of Central Asia.

他走在炙热的中亚沙漠中。

灼热的，炙热的

例句：

The monsignor made female converts with his burning eyes.

主教则用火热的眼睛来争取自己的女信徒。

例句：

Do you suppose I'm going with that blow burning in my gullet?

你以为我喉头挨了那火辣辣的一拳，就一走了事？

热烈的，炽烈的，浓厚的，热切的，强烈的

例句：

She glared at both of them with burning, reproachful eyes.

她瞪着他们俩，目光中充满怒火和责备。

例句：

I had a burning ambition to become a journalist.

我热切期盼成为一名记者。

急迫的，重要的

例句：

He was burning with impatience at all this waiting.

他等得心急火燎。

例句：

These days crimes against humanities are burning issue.

近日，反人道主义的犯罪是一个热点话题。

n.

燃烧

例句：

The farmers compressed straw into blocks for burning.

农民们将干草压成块用来烧火。

例句：

I can smell burning.

我能闻到烧焦的气味。

v.

burn的现在分词；燃烧

例句：

Damn it! The rice is burning!

糟了，饭糊啦！

例句：

When your home is burning, you have soldiers attacking your town, you just have to leave.

当你的家园被焚烧，当你居住的城镇受到攻击，你只能逃亡。

二、词义辨析：

hot,warm,burning

这些形容词都有“热的”之意。hot最普通用词，指温度很高，往往有灼热、滚烫含义。warm通常指温度不太高，介于hot与cold之间，不太热也不太凉，给人以舒适感。burning暗示热源是火，多用于夸张，指像火烧一样热。

三、参考例句：

The wood is burning.

木头在燃烧。

Can you smell something burning?

你有没有闻到什么东西烧焦了？

Father is burning some leaves.

爸爸在烧树叶。

I loathe the smell of burning rubber.

我讨厌燃烧的橡胶散发的气味。

The horses dashed out of burning stable.

马群猛冲出着了火的马厩。

Sparks rained down from the burning roof.

火花从燃烧着的屋顶上雨滴般落下。

The sailors abandoned the burning ship.

船员们放弃了燃烧着的船只。

His face was burning with cold.

他的脸被冻得发热。

Is this burning, an eternal flame？

这是熊熊燃烧的吗?永恒的火焰。

His running is burning him up.

他因跑步而十分疲倦。