光军语言文化：今天我们一起来复习fire一词的基本意思、短语和习语。

fire一词有多个意思，一起来看看下面的例句，先了解一下基本意思。

名词：火，火堆

• If your home was on fire and you could save only one thing, what would it be?
• 如果你家着了火，而你只能抢救出一样东西，你会拿什么呢？
• We put up our tents and made a small fire.
• 我们搭起了帐篷，点起了一小堆火。

动词：解雇，裁员

• The company is reducing its workforce by firing 500 employees.
• 该公司将裁员500人以减少雇员人数。

动词：连珠炮似地提出（问题）；猛烈地发出（抨击）

• The journalists were firing questions at me for two whole hours.
• 整整两个小时，记者们连珠炮似地向我发问。

动词：开火，开（枪）；射击

• Without warning he started firing into the crowd.
• 在没有任何警示的情况下他开始朝人群开枪。

复习一下这些短语

• put out the fire 灭火
• light a fire 点火
• be on fire 着火
• an electric fire 电暖气
• fire door防火安全门
• fire hydrant 消火栓
• fire engine 消防车
• fire extinguisher 灭火器

含有fire的习语

add fuel to the fire火上浇油

The discovery that the government was aware of the cover-up has really added fuel to the fire.

人们发现政府对这起隐瞒事件早已知情，这真是火上浇油。

there’s no smoke without fire无火不冒烟；无风不起浪

She says the accusations are not true, but there’s no smoke without fire.

她说那些指控纯属子虚乌有，但无风不起浪。

light a fire under sb 使（某人）加快，加强（尤指在过去行动迟缓的情况下）

The coach tried to light a fire under the team in his halftime speech.

教练试图在半场休息时鼓励队员们振奋起来。

come under fire 遭受批评

The government has come under fire for its decision to close the mines.

政府因其关闭矿井的决定而遭到了抨击。

in the firing line 易遭到批评（或攻击、抛弃）

He found himself in the firing line for his sexist remarks.

他发现自己因言辞带有性别歧视而备受抨击。

hang/hold fire 延缓作出决定

Ideally we would settle the matter now, but I think we should hang fire until the general situation becomes clearer.

理想的状况是我们现在就把这个问题给解决了，但我认为我们还是等总体局势更为明朗之后再作决定为好。

get on like a house on fire 一见如故，情投意合

I was worried that they wouldn’t like each other but in fact they’re getting on like a house on fire.

我之前还担心他们会合不来，实际上他们却一见如故。

fire in your belly 志向，热情；雄心壮志；动力

Neither of the candidates has a fire in his belly, so it’s hard to get excited about them.

这两名候选人都没有雄心壮志，很难看好他们。

练习：猜猜下面几个习语的意思

• go through fire and water 赴汤蹈火
• the fat is in the fire 事情搞糟了；闯祸了
• fight fire with fire 以其人之道还治其人之身，以牙还牙
• out of the frying pan into the fire 跳出油锅又入火坑；才出龙潭又入虎穴