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词汇 firefighting
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Definition of firefighting in English:

firefighting

noun ˈfʌɪəˌfʌɪtɪŋˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfaɪdɪŋ
mass noun
  • 1The action or process of extinguishing fires, as a person's job.

    (作为职业从事的)消防,灭火

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They provide or control such essential services as water, electricity, policing, and firefighting.
    • The fabric is ideal for uniforms and apparel for occupations such as firefighting.
    • Accidents are an unavoidable by-product of firefighting.
    • A session in firefighting was also held with many of the seminar attendees performing well.
    • The focus of the unit's recent annual training was structural firefighting.
    • In the early 1980s I was injured and I wasn't fit enough to go back to firefighting.
    • And the strong winds are making firefighting difficult.
    • We were carrying out aggressive firefighting last night but are now monitoring the position there.
    • Firefighting in the present round of fires is costing about $15 million a day.
    • The full resources were now readily available and offensive firefighting began.
    • Primarily designed for firefighting, Beriev also produces a passenger version.
    • This is certainly true of firefighting on naval vessels.
    • Firefighting is a brotherhood that exists nowhere else in our society.
    • Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige.
    • And, once he gets elected, he promises to make a new study of Montreal firefighting and a fire prevention campaign.
    • And with its inherent risks, firefighting is certainly not a job for the faint-hearted.
    • The fundamental of good use of aircraft for firefighting is to dispatch early and keep the fire from spreading.
    • He said, "In 28 years of firefighting I've never seen anything like it."
    • Long hours are dangerous in any industry, and especially so in firefighting.
    • Rooms on the second floor of the museum show different aspects of firefighting or fire prevention.
  • 2(in business) the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them.

    (商业用语)灭火式解决法,事后解决法

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My day to day job involves dealing with customers and general firefighting and troubleshooting!
    • You should see them in Edinburgh, we spend most of the time firefighting their stress levels.
    • But business owners who use agencies on an ongoing basis are often left constantly firefighting.
    • Mr Catterall said the staff were firefighting the whole time; unsurprisingly the Ward was not a popular one.
    • At the moment we are just constantly firefighting.
    • Sometimes I feel the business has developed purely through firefighting the problem at hand.

Definition of firefighting in US English:

firefighting

nounˈfaɪ(ə)rˌfaɪdɪŋˈfī(ə)rˌfīdiNG
  • 1The action or process of extinguishing fires, as a person's job.

    (作为职业从事的)消防,灭火

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They provide or control such essential services as water, electricity, policing, and firefighting.
    • Primarily designed for firefighting, Beriev also produces a passenger version.
    • Accidents are an unavoidable by-product of firefighting.
    • The focus of the unit's recent annual training was structural firefighting.
    • And the strong winds are making firefighting difficult.
    • In the early 1980s I was injured and I wasn't fit enough to go back to firefighting.
    • The fundamental of good use of aircraft for firefighting is to dispatch early and keep the fire from spreading.
    • The fabric is ideal for uniforms and apparel for occupations such as firefighting.
    • Firefighting was therefore at the top of the pecking order of Forest Service job prestige.
    • Firefighting is a brotherhood that exists nowhere else in our society.
    • He said, "In 28 years of firefighting I've never seen anything like it."
    • And with its inherent risks, firefighting is certainly not a job for the faint-hearted.
    • Rooms on the second floor of the museum show different aspects of firefighting or fire prevention.
    • And, once he gets elected, he promises to make a new study of Montreal firefighting and a fire prevention campaign.
    • We were carrying out aggressive firefighting last night but are now monitoring the position there.
    • This is certainly true of firefighting on naval vessels.
    • Firefighting in the present round of fires is costing about $15 million a day.
    • The full resources were now readily available and offensive firefighting began.
    • A session in firefighting was also held with many of the seminar attendees performing well.
    • Long hours are dangerous in any industry, and especially so in firefighting.
  • 2(in business) the practice of dealing with problems as they arise rather than planning strategically to avoid them.

    (商业用语)灭火式解决法,事后解决法

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mr Catterall said the staff were firefighting the whole time; unsurprisingly the Ward was not a popular one.
    • You should see them in Edinburgh, we spend most of the time firefighting their stress levels.
    • But business owners who use agencies on an ongoing basis are often left constantly firefighting.
    • At the moment we are just constantly firefighting.
    • Sometimes I feel the business has developed purely through firefighting the problem at hand.
    • My day to day job involves dealing with customers and general firefighting and troubleshooting!
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