“home、fire”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

home-fire

释义

home-fire
Used, like hearth, as symbolic of the home and family life, and especially popular during the war of 1914–18 in phr. to keep the home-fires burning: to keep the home going, to ‘carry on’ at home.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. i. xiii. 288 Happy fathers of happy children, men who warmed their hands at the home-fire of life.1914Ivor Novello Song, Keep the home-fires burning, While your hearts are yearning.1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club iii. 29 Health gone—no money—heroic wife keeping the home fires burning.1931P. Williams Word of To-Morrow iv. i, When they were holding the line in France, and he and all the other old gollywogs were keeping the home fires burning, snug and comfortable.1972Listener 6 July 13/2 Famine, rapine, rape... All keep the home fires burning, spread good cheer.

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