Translation

• candle
• (literary) to illuminate

Synonyms

• 火烛, 炬, 蜡, 蜡烛
• 烛照, 照亮, 照明, 生辉

Examples

• 蜡烛没有了芯，就不能算是蜡烛了。
  A candle without a wick is no candle at all.
• 蜡烛出去，而不必被扑灭。
  The candle went out instead of having been put out.
• 母亲在我的生日蛋糕上插上了十三枝蜡烛。
  My mother put thirteen candles on my birthday cake.