Ember

(noun.) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering.

杰勒德整理

• She had been proud of having won and preserved him--but another had won him from her, and her exultation was as cold as a water quenched ember. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He had risen to his feet, and his eyes glowed like embers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Some time, if I live to be an old woman, I may sit over the fire, and, looking into the embers, see the life that might have been. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A pin occasionally dropped with the wax, and the embers heated it red as it lay. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I observed this also, and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It is more cold within her, than a fire left by gypsies in winter-time, the spent embers crowned by a pyramid of snow. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The spirit of life seemed to linger in his form, as a dying flame on an altar flickers on the embers of an accepted sacrifice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The revived embers of an old passion glowed clearly in Wildeve now; and he leant forward as if about to put his face towards her cheek. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• By April, 1859, the last embers of the blaze had been stamped out, and the British were masters of India again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The brightness of the glare faded--the steam rose in white clouds, and the smouldering heaps of embers showed red and black through it on the floor. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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