The custom of lighting the Olympic flame goes back centuries.

点燃奥运圣火的风俗可追溯到几个世纪前。

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The flame sputters out.

火焰噼啪噼啪地熄灭了。

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Witnesses spoke of a great ball of flame.

目击者都谈到有个大火球。

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For example,a poem called "The Death of the Hired Man" begins: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table, Waiting for Warren.

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II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Take the small flame-retardant maker who appealed to the British billionaire for money in 1994.

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Take the small maker of flame-retardant spray who in 1994 appealed to the British billionaire for money.

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"They remember things imprinted before they could speak, " says Rapaille, who wears his flame-colored hair in a pompadour.

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