1. hide one's candle under a bushel : 不露锋芒；

2. not worth the candle : 得不偿失的, 不上算的；

3. burn the candle at both ends : 过分耗费；

1. candle的意思

1. We candled the eggs to assure quality.
    为保证质量，我们对着光检查了蛋。

1. He blew out the candle and went to bed.
    他吹熄蜡烛，上床睡觉。

1. 烛,烛光：最新的蜡烛(烛光)(Candle)型过滤芯硅藻土过滤机,过滤部件间的间隙小,只有30μm(比通常的硅藻土过滤机50~70μm小). 这种新型过滤机的硅藻土预涂层不需要熔化助剂的烧制品,采用中等助剂一次预涂即可,既缩短了预涂助剂的时间,

1. 蜡烛
    A candle is a stick of hard wax with a piece of string called a wick through the middle. You light the wick in order to give a steady flame that provides light.

    e.g. The bedroom was lit by a single candle.
           卧室里只点了一支蜡烛。

2. 一根蜡烛两头烧;起早摸黑地干;过度耗费精力
    If you burn the candle at both ends, you try to do too many things in too short a period of time so that you have to stay up very late at night and get up very early in the morning to get them done.

candle什么意思

3. 远不如;比…逊色许多
    If you say that one person or thing can''t hold a candle to another, you meant that the first person or thing is not nearly as good as the second.

    e.g. Girls today can''t hold a candle to the beauties of the Fifties.
           如今的姑娘根本不能和50年代的美女相提并论。

4. 不值得;划不来
    If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.

1. stick of wax with a wick in the middle

    Synonym: taperwax light

2. the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d''Unites
    equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

    Synonym: candelacdstandard candle

1. examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light