alight
alight 英 [əˈlaɪt] 美 [əˈlaɪt]
adj. 烧着的；点亮的
进行时:alighting 过去式:alighted 过去分词:alighted 第三人称单数:alights 名词复数:alights
- The word alight has two distinct meanings: it can mean coming down or settling in a delicate manner, such as a bird perching, or it can be a rather poetic way to describe something that’s on fire (or “afire”).
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- adj. 烧着的；点亮的
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1. A cigarette set the dry grass alight.
一支香烟把干草点燃了。
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2. Her dress caught alight in the fire.
她的衣服让火烧着了。
- alight (adj.) "on fire," early 15c., apparently an adjectival use of Middle English aliht, past participle of verb alihton (Old English on-lihtan, obsolete from 17c.) "to light up, set light to," also "to shine upon" (see a- (1) + light (n.)). Now regarded as parallel to afire, ablaze, etc.
- alight (v.) "to descend (from horseback, etc.), dismount," Old English alihtan "alight," originally "to lighten, take off, take away," from a- "down, aside" (see a- (1)) + lihtan "get off, make light" (see light (v.)). The notion is of getting down off a horse or vehicle, thus lightening it. Of aircraft (originally balloons) from 1786. Related: Alighted; alighting.
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