烧[shāo]

动

1. burn

♦ 干柴好~。 Wood burns better (or more easily) when dry.

♦ 这台锅炉~油。 This furnace burns oil.

♦ 咱们把这些废纸~掉吧。 Let's burn up all this waste paper.

2. cook; heat

♦ ~一点水 heat up some water

♦ 水~开了。 The water is boiling.

♦ ~炭 make charcoal

♦ ~砖 bake (or fire) bricks

3. stew after frying or fry after stewing

♦ ~茄子 stewed eggplant

♦ 洋葱~排骨 spareribs stewed in onion and sauce

4. roast

♦ ~乳猪 roast suckling pig

5. run a fever; have a temperature

♦ 病人~得厉害。 The patient's running a high fever. or The patient has a high temperature.

6. damage or injure by excessive or improper use of fertilizer

♦ 上的肥太多, 把根儿都~坏了。 Overfertilization burned the roots.

♦ 这几棵苗全~了。 These seedlings are all burnt.

名fever

♦ ~退了。 The fever is down.