0 to cause a fire to start burning by lighting paper, wood, etc. -- 燃點
1 to cause strong feelings or ideas in someone -- 激起(熱情等);使產生想法
Her imagination was kindled by the exciting stories her grandmother told her. 她祖母給她講述的精彩故事激發了她的想像力。
Interventions early in the course of kindling may reverse this course.
Predictably, local risings were sporadic, but once the spark had been kindled, conditions were clearly ripe for revolt.
His own interest had been kindled by a recent exchange in which he, indeed, felt "ripped off" by one of his publishers.
The second is the way of illumination, in which the mind by contemplation is kindled to the burning of love.
In fact, the passions kindled by the sight of difference are depicted as so offensive, frightening, and unacceptable, that they have to be repressed.
In the architecture of our time, such hopes are only rarely kindled.
Left politics has provided him with a more appropriate theatre for kindling more fearsome verbal fires.
I secretly kicked my wet boots behind the bundle of kindling as she took off her heavy garments.