wildfire的意思|wildfire的解释-里氏词典

wildfire ['waildfaiә]

n. (古时战争时所用的)燃料剂, 磷火, 鬼火, 野火

wildfire

[ noun ]
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
<noun.event>

Wildfire \Wild"fire\, n.
1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is
very hard to quench; Greek fire.

Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and
hard to quench. --Bacon.

2. (Med.)
(a) An old name for erysipelas.
(b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the
skin.

3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]

Some 4,500 residents of the Lake Wildwood area, where some houses cost $1 million, were forced from their homes twice in the past two days as the out-of-control wildfire raged through rugged terrain.
And the programs aren't exactly spreading like wildfire in the U.K., either.
The crash sparked a wildfire near Alabama Highway 154 that was fought by state forestry fire crews.
In the Sierra Nevada foothills, firefighters contained an 11,700-acre wildfire that destroyed seven homes.
A wildfire near Helena, Mont., tripled in size today, growing into a "wall of flame" that destroyed at least three homes and forced dozens of residents to flee.
"You're talking about a very significant percentage of east-west markets," says Edward Starkman, analyst at PaineWebber Group Inc. "Denver hits everything; the cuts spread like wildfire."
A wildfire that killed two firefighters, razed 19 houses and blackened more than 2,600 acres of timber and brush defied control today, although its progress slowed, officials said.
It also helps that Californians are more accustomed to drought and wildfire, she said.
The mother whose first molestation report ignited the wildfire of accusations died of alcoholism before the trial began.
Smoke from a mountain wildfire burning near ancient Inca ruins clouded the Andean capital of Cuzco on Thursday as an estimated 550 fire fighters struggled to put out the blaze, authorities said.
Such 'voluntary import expansion' orders would probably spread like wildfire, just as voluntary export restrictions did in the 1980s.
Alaska's wildfire season began on July 1, as lightning strikes ignited dozens of blazes in remote regions.
Ranchers whose rangeland was devastated by a wildfire that killed about 200 head of cattle are receiving gifts of about 350,000 pounds of hay daily to keep their operations going, officials say.
The church already has a waiting list for renters. "The word spread like wildfire," Edwards said.
The joy of America's 212th birthday was muted by the drought, which snuffed fireworks in many communities because of wildfire fears, and by fireworks-sparked fires, which injured at least 18 people.
Other work from regional artists was a prophecy of the wildfire irredentism that today gives Moscow so much trouble.
"It spread like wildfire," Hale said, adding that it uses the hallucigenic peyote bean "as a sacrament," which also is used in a "limited way" in some other tribal religions.
The idea "went like wildfire," said Wisniewski, who plans to use his share to pay bills and for education for himself, his wife and their children.
A wildfire burning along a mountain ledge apparently jumped a fireline and killed five inmates and a prison guard fighting the blaze, authorities said.
Zeb Bell says over his microphone, yet you know without question she is not just some little cowgirl but that wildfire spirit of the West that makes it easy to believe in all the old, strong, necessary myths.
In Southern California, a 14,000-acre wildfire felled century-old timber and charred vegetation in the Cleveland National Forest.
Hundreds of firefighters today spent another night defending the village of Tok from a 50,000-acre wildfire at its edge.
Disqualification seemed like an unfair penalty." "We're elated!" said Stuyvesant Assistant Principal Harold Lehrman. "After I got the call, the news spread through the school like wildfire.

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