fires

One of two or more successive propulsion units of a rocket vehicle that fires after the preceding one has been jettisoned.

一节火箭两级或多级火箭的推动器，往往前一个推动器被抛弃后下一个才点火发射

"Fire truck! " yelled five-year-old Billy. His mom had told him his dad was a fireman. When he got older he set fires, hoping to meet Dad.

“消防车！”五岁的比利喊道。比利的妈妈曾告诉过他，爸爸是个消防员。所以，等比利长大了一点，他就开始放火，希望可以见到爸爸。

Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis.

地震引起的房屋倒塌通常了绝大多数的伤亡，而地震带来的危害却不止于此，还包括由此引发的泥石流、火灾、洪灾和海啸。

Fires in informal settlements are almost a daily occurrence. Unfortunately most of the fatalities are infants less than a year old.

火灾每天都有发生，不幸的是大部分遇害的孩子不满一岁。

Officials admit that they haven not been able to get the fires under control, but that there is no danger to the general public.

有关官员承认，他们还没有完全控制火势，但是对一般民众的生活不会有影响。

The tang of wood fires stings the nostrils of men and women as they duck through low doorways into the cheery, bright world of a home.

火刺木的汤，因为他们的男子和妇女通过低门口鸭鼻孔进入，热情的，一个家庭更美好的世界。

She had circled through a ploughed field for a mile until the light of the fires died out behind her.

她打田畈里绕圈子走了一英里多路，直到那火光远远消失在她的背后。

Watts thinks trends are more like forest fires: There are thousands a year, but only a few become roaring monsters.

瓦特认为流行更像是森林大火：在每年上千次火灾里，只有少数发展成不可遏止的烈火猛兽。

The big controversy then was that the government had spent $675m on summit "security" (yet they still couldn't seem to put out those fires).

之后关于此事件最大的争议是政府为峰会“安保”（虽然叫安保，他们却不能把火给灭了）投入了6.75亿美元。

high-temperature micro-fire, not easy to go off: lighting fires, large air valve to open fire is not quench, and durable.

耐高温微型火种，不易息灭：点燃火种，开大风阀火种不被息灭，耐用。

If I were an insurgent fighting against an American joint force, I would be delighted if all my opponent had to offer was long-range fires.

如果我是一名对抗美军联合作战力量的武装分子，我会很乐意看到我的敌人打过来的都是远程火力。

The only lights they saw came from the scattered fires around which groups of men were huddled.

他们能看到的唯一光亮，来自稀稀落落的火光，男人一群群围坐在旁边。

Joel Kotkin, a demographer, points out that California has always had fires during dry years, at least since the time of the Spaniards.

人口统计学家约尔·柯特金指出，加州在干旱年份总是有火灾，这至少始于西班牙人统治时期。

Rush in to wipe out the oppressors; after you gun down the enemy Marines, destroy the armed Dominion Transport that fires on you.

在你干翻敌方的陆战队员后，摧毁正向你开火的自治联盟武装运输车。

I made a mental note to remind her of that the next time she fires me for not fulfilling my Tech Support duties.

我默默记下，以便下次在她因为我没能充分履行技术支持职责而要解雇我的时候，提醒她曾说过这句话。

"People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity, " he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience.

“人民与国家都是在烈火中涅槃重生，”他说，毫无疑问他认为他自己也和美国人的经历一样。

Theres a primal urge, it seems, to go into a cave: to sniff it and test it and wonder what primal fires might once have illumined it.

这些洞穴会令人产生一种原始冲动，想进去一探究竟：闻闻周围的空气，抚摸一下石壁，畅想当年首次有火光照亮这里时是什么样的情景。

Stephen fell asleep owing to the heat from the wood fires in the tobacco barn, and when he awoke the fire was almost out.

由于烟草谷仓烧材的热度，斯蒂芬睡着了，当他醒来时，火几乎快燃尽了。

From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us.

从热浪到暴风雨到洪水到火灾到融化的冰川，全球气候对我们来说好像要崩溃了。

Clashes were continuing to flare into the early hours of Thursday morning, as fires continued to burn around Tahrir Square.

冲突持续到周四凌晨，解放广场的周围仍有大火。