21-08-05 短语 putting out fires 通常指在工作环境中解决很多小的问题，问题虽小，但很棘手，需要在恶化前快速解决。 例句 Sorry I didnt have time to meet you for lunch today. I was busy at work all day putting out fires. Sometimes it feels like you get nothing don...

14-04-18 Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years -- a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, accord...

14-01-16 Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces the flamma...

12-09-04 Portugal has said it is seeking European Union help to to tackle raging forest fires, in one of the worst summers for such blazes in years. 葡萄牙政府正在寻求欧盟的帮助来处理肆虐的森林大火，这是西班牙近年来最糟糕的发生如此火灾的夏天。 Dozens of fire...

12-07-20 Firefighters have been battling forest fires across the Portuguese island of Madeira for more than two days. 葡萄牙马德拉岛上的消防员与森林大火的对抗已持续了两天多的时间。 Dozens of people have abandoned their homes as the wildfires, which began on...

12-07-07 Hello, everybody. I'm here in Colorado Springs, visiting some of the devastating fires that have been taking place over the last several days. As many of you have been watching on television, entire communities are under threat. And we had a chance...

10-08-03 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared a state of emergency in seven Russian regions because of wildfires fuelled by a heatwave. 俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫宣布七个地区进入紧急状态，因为热浪在这些地区引起了大火灾。 Smog still shrouds Moscow as peat...

10-06-09 Proper and timely burning of some Eastern U.S. forests could help revitalize（复活，复兴） flowering dogwood trees（多花狗木） , which benefits a wide range of species, a Purdue University report shows. Dogwood trees act as a calcium pump, pulling t...