Scorched

(adj.) having everything destroyed so nothing is left salvageable by an enemy; 'Sherman's scorched earth policy' .

录入:诺兰

• I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The soles which you are at this moment presenting to me are slightly scorched. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• No, scorched, not burnt--he lay on his face, I tell you. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They crossed the bare scorched terrace all three together, and disappeared through a staring white archway. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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