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candle
kændəl ˈkændəl
Word forms: plural candles
1 N-COUNT 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. 蜡烛
  • The bedroom was lit by a single candle.

    卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。

2 PHRASE 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. 一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力
3 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 远不如;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. 远不如;逊色许多
  • Girls today can't hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties.

    如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。

4 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 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. 不值得;划不来 [old-fashioned]
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