今日短語
表達(dá) fan the flame 的意思是故意煽動(dòng)、慫恿他人，火上澆油，使已經(jīng)令人不快的情緒或緊張局勢(shì)變得更糟。
例句
Don't fan the flames - the situation is already bad enough.
Such behaviours are only fanning the flames.
The speech seemed to have fanned the flames.
請(qǐng)注意
另外，表達(dá) go down in flames 的意思是某事以失敗告終，就像被烈火燒盡了一樣。而且事情的失敗很可能是出人意料的。
例句
The project went down in flames when, at the last minute, the manager cut the budget in half.
Our plan to redecorate went down in flames when the landlord said no.
