詞彙精選：burning的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
adj.
燃燒的，着火的
例句：
He was kept from entering the burning house by his neighbors.
他的鄰居阻止他進入熊熊燃燒的房子。
例句：
He's walking in the burning desert of Central Asia.
他走在炙熱的中亞沙漠中。
灼熱的，炙熱的
例句：
The monsignor made female converts with his burning eyes.
主教則用火熱的眼睛來爭取自己的女信徒。
例句：
Do you suppose I'm going with that blow burning in my gullet?
你以爲我喉頭捱了那火辣辣的一拳，就一走了事？
熱烈的，熾烈的，濃厚的，熱切的，強烈的
例句：
She glared at both of them with burning, reproachful eyes.
她瞪着他們倆，目光中充滿怒火和責備。
例句：
I had a burning ambition to become a journalist.
我熱切期盼成爲一名記者。
急迫的，重要的
例句：
He was burning with impatience at all this waiting.
他等得心急火燎。
例句：
These days crimes against humanities are burning issue.
近日，反人道主義的犯罪是一個熱點話題。
n.
燃燒
例句：
The farmers compressed straw into blocks for burning.
農民們將乾草壓成塊用來燒火。
例句：
I can smell burning.
我能聞到燒焦的氣味。
v.
burn的現在分詞；燃燒
例句：
Damn it! The rice is burning!
糟了，飯糊啦！
例句：
When your home is burning, you have soldiers attacking your town, you just have to leave.
當你的家園被焚燒，當你居住的城鎮受到攻擊，你只能逃亡。
二、詞義辨析：
hot,warm,burning
這些形容詞都有“熱的”之意。hot最普通用詞，指溫度很高，往往有灼熱、滾燙含義。warm通常指溫度不太高，介於hot與cold之間，不太熱也不太涼，給人以舒適感。burning暗示熱源是火，多用於誇張，指像火燒一樣熱。
三、參考例句：
The wood is burning.
木頭在燃燒。
Can you smell something burning?
你有沒有聞到什麼東西燒焦了？
Father is burning some leaves.
爸爸在燒樹葉。
I loathe the smell of burning rubber.
我討厭燃燒的橡膠散發的氣味。
The horses dashed out of burning stable.
馬羣猛衝出着了火的馬廄。
Sparks rained down from the burning roof.
火花從燃燒着的屋頂上雨滴般落下。
The sailors abandoned the burning ship.
船員們放棄了燃燒着的船隻。
His face was burning with cold.
他的臉被凍得發熱。
Is this burning, an eternal flame？
這是熊熊燃燒的嗎?永恆的火焰。
His running is burning him up.
他因跑步而十分疲倦。
