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A bonfire is a big fire outside. People light one to burn garden waste — dry leaves, old wood, things they do not want — or they light one for a night gathering, with friends standing round it, talking and keeping warm.
A bonfire is a big fire outsidea bonfire是戶外的一大堆火。 People light one to burn garden waste有人生火是為了燒院子裡的垃圾—— dry leaves, old wood, things they do not want乾樹葉、舊木頭、不要的東西—— or they light one for a night gathering或是為了夜晚的聚會而生火， with friends standing round it, talking and keeping warm朋友們圍在旁邊聊天取暖。
It is not a little fire for cooking. A is smaller and sits near tents; a bonfire is the large, somewhat wild one, often in a field or on a beach.
It is not a little fire for cooking它不是用來煮東西的小火。 A campfire is smaller and sits near tentsa campfire（營地小火堆）比較小，通常在帳篷附近； a bonfire is the large, somewhat wild onebonfire則是比較大、有點狂野的那種， often in a field or on a beach常常是在空地或海灘上。
In Britain, Bonfire Night (the fifth of November) is a real calendar event: towns build huge and set off to remember Guy Fawkes. Schools and scout groups also have bonfire parties.
In Britain在英國， Bonfire Night (the fifth of November) is a real calendar eventBonfire Night（十一月五日的營火之夜）是行事曆上真實的節日： towns build huge fires and set off fireworks to remember Guy Fawkes各地城鎮會生起大火、放煙火，來紀念Guy Fawkes（蓋伊．福克斯）。 Schools and scout groups also have bonfire parties學校和童軍團也會辦bonfire派對。
The word is ordinary, not fancy. You can stretch it a little in talk — 'this meeting is going to be a bonfire' is rare and , as if everything will go up in flames — but most of the time it stays a real outdoor fire.
The word is ordinary, not fancy這個字很普通，不花俏。 You can stretch it a little in talk講話時可以稍微引申一下—— 'this meeting is going to be a bonfire''this meeting is going to be a bonfire'（這場會議會變成一場大火）是少見又帶點玩笑的說法， as if everything will go up in flames好像一切都會燒起來一樣—— but most of the time it stays a real outdoor fire但大部分時候它指的就是真正的戶外大火。
組成Looks like bone + fire, and that is the old surface reading: Middle English bonnefyre, 'a fire in which bones are burnt'. It took the place of an earlier word, bale-fyre (from Old English). The fire half goes back a very long way (the old root behind English fire). Later scholars noted that midsummer bonfires were not, in general, about burning bones — so the bone story is how the word is built, not always what the fire was for.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bonfirenoun/ˈbɒnfaɪəɹ/
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A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
- O thou art a perpetuall triumph, an euerlaſting bonefire light, […]
- Theſe vvith the like diſtaſtures, diuulged among the rude multitude, it vvas a vvorld to ſee the face of this nevv VVorld, for in euery ſtreete Bonfires vvere made, in euery Church bels rung, Ditties vvere ſung at euery meeting, and euery man cryed K. Henry, King Henry, […]
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A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
- [A]ll the inhabitauntes confortynge and exhortynge eche other to die, rather than to violate the leage and amitie that they of longe tyme had contynued with the Romaynes, by one hole assent, after that they hadde made sondry great pyles of wode and of other mater to brenne, they layde in it all their goodes and substaunce, and laste of all, conuayenge them selfes in to the saide pyles or bonefires with their wyfes and children, sette all on fire, and there were brenned or Annyballe coulde entree the citie.
- I had thought to haue let in ſome of all Profeſſions, that goe the Primroſe way to th'euerlasting Bonfire.
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Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
- And one thing I like in you, novv that you ſee / The bonefire of your Ladies ſtate burnt out, / You give it over, doe you not?
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obsoleteA fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
- The bodies which the plague had ſlaine were (O moſt wretched caſe) / Not caried forth to buriall now. For why ſuch ſtore there was / That ſcarce the gates were wyde inough for Coffins forth to paſſe. / So eyther lothly on the ground vnburied did they lie, / Or elſe without ſolemnitie were burnt in bonfires hie / No reuerence nor regard was had.
- Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad, / Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles: / And making bonfires for my ouerthrow. / But ere I die thoſe foule Idolaters / Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]
bonfireverb/ˈbɒnfaɪəɹ/
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To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
- [L]ike the Christmas joke of snapdragons for children, the very liquor was to be bonfired also, and drank burning.
- Sir, there are as many public documents as you could put in this room that must be taken out and bonfired, that have cost millions, that must be burned up, unless this provision of the honorable Senator from Illinois is carried.
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ceramicschemistryengineeringTo fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
- The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.
- In China, where huge figures have been excavated in recent years at Xian, archaeologists surmise that they were probably bonfired lying horizontally in a pit, or possibly handmade bricks were piled over the sculptures to retain heat; the bricks would have been removed from round the figure when the firing was over.
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obsoleteTo start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
- They almost carried him [the king] into the palace on their shoulders; and at night the whole town was illuminated and bonfired.
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rareTo make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
- [W]hen the news of the battle of Lissa came even to our remote quarter of Ireland, we considered it as a triumph for the cause of Protestantism, and illuminated, and bonfired, and had a sermon at church, and kept the Prussian king's birthday, on which my uncle would get drunk, as indeed on any other occasion.
- Seems as if one day we are all bar-b-quing, swimming, jetskiing, bonfiring, and the next thing you know everyone is gone, leaving the house empty (except for the sad pile of damp towels and a refrigerator full of sloppy Jo's).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。