For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The whole city burned down, practically, in a terrible fire and fire insurance started to proliferate right after that in London.

大火几乎烧毁了整座城市,紧随着那场伦敦大火,火险订单的数量激增

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Anyway, the person wrote-- he was talking about fires and was proposing that people should pay 1% of the value of the home every year into a fund and then the fund would be used to replace the home if it burned down.

反正,这人写道...,他当时是讨论火灾,并提出,人们应该每年将自己房屋价值的1%的金额,交给一个基金会,那么如果有房子烧毁了,基金会就可以用这笔钱来重建它

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Their bodies,burned by the sun and stained yellow from the raft dye, had winnowed down to skeletons.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The constant fires burned everything down to the bare rock base.

VOA: special.2009.07.20