lighter

1 She sits by her fancy swimming pool and hears only her Sony Walkman, her cordless phone, her big, important husband asking her why they have charcoal and no lighter fluid.

2 “Now that I’ve told you, I feel so much lighter. More bouncy.”

3 With a lighter heart, I patted Plug and even had a kind word for Violet.

4 She sounded so much happier and lighter than the woman I’d first met.

5 Her steps were faster and lighter tonight, a smile spreading over her face as she thought of giving Geak the chicken to eat.

6 Which idiot in history decided that lighter pigment was more attractive than having more melanin?

7 The weight inside me was no lighter for my recent change of heart.

8 Mom gave him one of his presents, a brass cigarette lighter from the nineteen twenties in the shape of a Scottish terrier.

9 His lean face was lined with deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips which were lighter than his face.

10 He lay there early in the morning and watched the high small window above the bed; dark gray gradually became lighter until it cast a white square on the opposite wall at dawn.

11 “I was lighter than air from the minute I was born,” Olive said proudly.

12 His hair was lighter than Rebecca’s, but they both looked like all the scientists that Moss had seen in the sci-fi films he’d grown up on.

13 The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons, which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter, can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons.

14 Norma was lighter, rust colored, and not as pale as Mami, whose skin was pink.

15 As the room grew lighter, he thrashed and chewed away and either didn’t notice my face pressed up against his jar or didn’t care.

16 Black is the ultimate dark color and makes lighter colors as yellow really pop out.

黑色是最终的深色,使打火机的颜色,如黄色真正弹出.

17 The majority of “delinquents” are my color—just some lighter, some darker.

18 His voice ceased and I saw the strands of pale blue smoke drifting across the mirror and heard the electric lighter snap back on its cable into place behind the back of the seat.

19 Ms. Singh has a lighter touch and cuts kind of upward instead of straight across.

20 She almost dropped the lighter, but her fist clenched around it just in time.

1 引火物

tinder kindling firelighter

2 点火器

igniter light exploder sparker

3 引柴

spill

4 驳船

tender cutter barge pram pontoon birlinn pinnace hoy gondola lighterman

5 点火者

igniter firer

6 用驳船运

barge

7 打火机

cigarette lighter a light light gas lighter