及物动词

名词

1. 蜡烛
A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.

2. 一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力
If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.

3. 远不如;比…逊色许多
If you say that one person or thing can't hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second.

4. 不值得;划不来
If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.

1. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

Synonym: taperwax light

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

Synonym: candelacdstandard candle