Fire up

หัวข้อข่าวคราวนี้มีศัพท์หลายคำทีเดียว

Cricket WINDIES FIRED UP
Aussies after some elusive silverware

ข่าวนี้เป็นข่าวกีฬา cricket ไม่ใช่จิ้งหรีด แต่คำถัดไปนี่สิต้องอธิบายหน่อย
าWindiesำ refers to the West Indies, a national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of a dozen English-speaking Caribbean countries and British dependencies. The team comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and the British dependencies of Anguilla and Montserrat.

แล้วก็เป็น 'To fire up' ซึ่งมีถึงสามความหมาย
1. To be fired up is to arouse a feeling such as enthusiasm, anger, desire, or another strong feeling.
The cheers from the crowd have fired up the boxer from the host country.

2. To light a cigar, cigarette or pipe. The more common term is าlight upำ.
Frank did not answer my question, but just fired up his pipe and then walked away.

3. Start the ignition of an engine
Grandpa kept trying to fire up the car for half an hour before he gave up and called a taxi instead.

ต่อมา าTo be afterำ ก็มีมากมายหลายความหมายแต่ที่ใช้ในหัวข้อข่าวนี้ คือ to do something in order to reach or get:
It is a waste of time talking to Bill about working hard and producing quality work; he is after easy money.

คุณศัพท์ elusive ให้ความหมายว่า difficult to find, achieve or describe
The lecturer spent the whole two sessions talking about an idea too elusive for us to understand.

และก็มาถึงคำสุดท้าย Silverware คือ objects, espescially eating and serving utensils, made of silver, silver-plated metals, stainless steel, etc. ในหัวข้อข่าวนี้หมายถึง a trophy.

หัวข้อข่าวข้างต้นจึงหมายความว่า The West Indies are excited: Aussies (slang for Australians) are trying to get (to win) the difficult-to-get trophy.

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Complete the sentences with 'to fire/light up' or 'to be after'
1. Every morning, the old man would come to the factory before everybody else and ... the machine so it would be ready to work when the workers came.
2. His political speech ... the passion for nationalism and drew a landslide win in the election.
3. Mary is not a person who believes in true love; I think she married the frail guy because she ... his inheritance.
4. ... it ... now so I can have a puff before my parents come.
5. Remember the guy we met at the fair last week? He keeps calling me and asking many strange questions; I donีt know what he ... .

Highlight this line to discover answer: 1. fire up, 2. fired up, 3. is after, 4. Light/fire up, 5. is after