candle
1.N-COUNT 可数名词蜡烛 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.
The bedroom was lit by a single candle.
卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。
2.PHRASE 短语一根蜡烛两头烧;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.
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3.PHRASE 短语远不如;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.
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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 短语不值得;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.
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