lightning

• He crouched behind a lightning charred tree and waited .
  他蹲伏到一棵被雷击后烧焦了的树后面等待着。
• The flames darted into a rick of straw with lightning swiftness .
  火苗象闪电一样迅速地向草垛里钻着。
• Franklin 's experiments showed that the lightning is an electrical discharge .
  富兰克林的实验表明闪电是一种放电。
• A contact with a lightning calculator inspired him to study mathematics .
  同快速计算器的一次接触，激励他去研究数学。
• The second peal was noisy, with comparatively little visible lightning .
  第二串雷声炸开，相对而言，闪电却不那么耀眼了。
• A stroke of lightning shattered their mast, which in its fall killed the pilot .
  一击闪电打断了桅杆，倒下的桅杆砸死了舵手。
• All was unstable; quivering as leaves, evanescent as lightning .
  一切都是不稳定的，都象树叶似地颤动翻转，象闪电似地倏忽明灭。
• Police and the villagers all unanimously ascribed the forest fire to thunder and lightning .
  警方和村民一致把森林失火归因于雷电。
• It is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds .
  它象平原上迅速蔓延的大火，象划破云天的一道闪电。
• Our lightning speed knocked the enemy completely off balance and struck fear into its heart .
  我军行动神速，致使敌军措手不及，狼狈周章。