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。
• Now I wish I hadn't torched our wedding photos.
  我真希望没有烧掉我们的结婚照。
• Angry passengers are said to have torched at least eight wagons and thrown ticket vending machines onto rail lines.
  据称，愤怒的乘客点燃了至少八辆列车，并且将售票机扔到铁轨上。
• To cap it all, religious Jews recently torched a mosque in Tuba, a Bedouin town in the north of the West Bank.
  最极端的行为是在西岸的北边贝都因镇的图巴（Tuba），犹太宗教人士最近烧毁了一座清真寺。
• Two churches were torched during the melee and a nearby apartment building, housing Christians, was gutted.
  在混乱中两座教堂被纵火焚烧，一处附近的基督徒住的公寓楼被毁坏。
• 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。
• Or even when a church is torched, either by mistake of other means, the Christians will not take it kindly and attack also the mosque.
  或者，甚至当一个教堂被放火，不管是因为失误或其它方面的原因，基督徒也不会宽恕忍让，而且还会攻击清真寺。
• As the famine worsens, hungry farmers threaten to attack Fan, who calls in the guards, setting up the first big action sequence: a bitter fight in which many are killed and the village is torched.
  当饥荒越来越严重，饥饿的农民们威胁要攻击范殿元。范殿元叫来了守卫，第一次采取了大规模的行动。很多人丧生于这场苦战，村庄也被烧毁了。
• Range Rover belonging to troubled Newcastle striker Andy Carroll was torched in a suspected arson attack yesterday.
  纽卡前锋卡罗尔的路浮昨晚被点燃，怀疑是与纵火攻击相关。
• 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。