1.点燃;放火
1.to make something start burning
1.At the edge of the park, with London at his feet, he set fire to all the documents that he had brought with him from Sudan.
在公园的边缘，当伦敦已经在脚下，他把从苏丹带来的全部文件付之一炬。
2.John has always been a trouble maker at school but when he set fire to someone's locker, it was the last straw and he was expelled.
约翰在旱校总是制造麻烦，当他对某人的橱柜放火时，实在让人忍无可忍，所以他被开除了。
3.A witness said the man set fire to flammable liquid in a milk carton and tossed it into a carriage full of commuters.
目击者说，那个男子将可燃液体装入牛奶盒中，并将它扔入载满乘客的车厢中。
4.Later, the mad man of the house because his wife set fire to the manor of, mistress died in the fire, man of the house and therefore blind.
后来，男主人因为发疯的妻子放火烧了庄园，女主人在火灾中死去，男主人也因此失明。
5.The despot set fire to his house beforehe took to flight. = The despot set his house on fire before he took to flight.
恶霸逃跑前，放火烧了自己的房子。
6.The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers.
阳光在郁金香上飞金贴紫，使它们发出火光，这简直就是一朵五光十色的火焰。
7.And it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in king Philip's war.
是跟菲力浦王开战的时候，你爹放火焚烧印第安人的村子，是我递给他的松脂火把，还是在我家炉子上点燃的？。
8.'You and I did not set fire to the place, ' he said softly, 'and you see we are not condemned, and not in prison. '
‘你和我都没有放火烧那地方，’他温和地说，‘你看我们都没有被判有罪，也没有进监狱。’
9.In one case, when the captain of a slave ship refused to pay a ransom, Roberts set fire to the ship with all of the slaves still inside.
有一个事例，一个运送奴隶船只的船长拒绝缴纳赎金后，罗伯茨就纵火将整船奴隶活活烧死。
10.The official Xinhua news agency says the children died of smoke inhalation after a mosquito-repellent incense coil set fire to bed covers.
官方新华社说，在蚊香引发被单失火之后，这些儿童被烟熏致死。