词组 | alight |
释义 | alight If something is alight, it is burning. The fire was safely alight. A candle was alight on the chest of drawers. To set something alight means to cause it to start burning. ...paraffin that had been poured on the ground and set alight. ◊ WARNING You do not use alight in front of a noun. You do not say, for example, 'People rushed out of the alight building'. You say 'People rushed out of the burning building'. |
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