Scorch

(noun.) a discoloration caused by heat.

(noun.) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues.

(noun.) a surface burn.

(verb.) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions; 'The exposed tree scorched in the hot sun'.

(verb.) destroy completely by or as if by fire; 'The wildfire scorched the forest and several homes'; 'the invaders scorched the land'.

(verb.) become superficially burned; 'my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames'.

整理:威廉

• I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I will endure thy sun's scorching rays, O God of Mercy! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We saw water, then, but nowhere in all the waste around was there a foot of shade, and we were scorching to death. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Don't keep me long; the fire scorches me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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