They saw a big flash and a huge ball of fire reaching hundreds of feet into the sky.

他们看到一道强光和一个巨大的火球直冲天空达几百英尺。

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Its theme was "fire"; at night the sky over Xichang was as bright as that in the day with the light fire.

它的主题是“火”；在明亮的火光下，西昌夜晚的天空和白天一样明亮。

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The glare from the fire lit up the sky.

火光照亮了天空。

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The curving brushstrokes of Van Gogh's expressive sky look like explosions of blue fire.

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We see this in the fact that the gods are very often ; associated with natural powerful forces, right? The sky is a god; the fire is a god; fertility--a natural process--is a god.

这一点可以在很多例子中得到证明，就比如说,神灵通常是和自然力量联系在一起的，对吧？有天空之神;,有火焰之神，有丰收之神，等等等等。

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In Hinduism each wick of the candle represents one of the five elements: wind, earth, fire, sky and water.

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And all our hearts afire, the sky ablaze with cannon fire, we all raise our voices to the air, to the air.

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When I looked up at the sky I saw the fire.

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