【alight】 - A-level备考词汇

alight

UK:  [ə'laɪt]

US:  [ə'laɪt]

第三人称单数：alights  现在分词：alighting  过去分词：alighted  

v.

1.落,降落;着陆;下车;跳下来

2.落下

3.照亮

4.下榻

5.着水

6.无意中碰到,无意中看见

7.偶然发现,碰见,遇见

8.降;下车[马]【航空】降落;(鸟)飞落(在树上)

adj.

1.照亮,照着

2.照亮的

3.烧着,烧起

4.点着;烧着

5.发亮;开朗起来;神采奕奕,容光焕发

6.烧着的

7.点燃的

1 . He had been stabbed and set alight and he died on his way to hospital.
他被严重刺伤，还被火烧过，最终在送往医院的途中死亡。

2 . Confucius wonder ah, he just did not say ah, it alight asked to do, do not hide, Confucius told his son said.
孔子纳闷啊，刚才他没说啊，就下车问农夫，农夫也不隐瞒，告诉孔子是他儿子说的。

3 . In this case, unlike that of natural selection, Darwin's thinking did not set the world alight.
这一次，达尔文的观点并没有像自然选择学说一样，轰动世界。

4 . They would not be likely to alight on the surface of the sea.
它们大概不会降落于海面上。

5 . All these clouds were alight with a dark red glow and a few of them seemed to be afire, not by the sun, but within themselves.
这些云都笼罩在一种深红色的亮光中，其中几片就像被点燃了一样，不是被太阳点燃的，而是自己从里面燃烧了起来。