a)START DOING somethingto suddenly begin to make a sound, especially to start singing, crying, or laughing 突然…起来〔尤指唱歌、哭、笑等〕
Claire looked as if she were about to burst into tears.
克莱尔看上去好像就要哭出来了。
Suddenly, the group burst into laughter.
突然,这群人哄然大笑起来。
Lydia burst into song.
莉迪娅忽然唱起歌来。
b)burst into flames/flameBURN to suddenly start to burn very strongly 突然起火,猛烈燃烧起来
Their car crashed and burst into flames.
他们的汽车猛烈撞击后突然燃起大火。
Examples from the Corpus
burst into • But the smell was disagreeable and she was afraid that the white linen would burst intoflame.• The airlinerstruck the ground some 50 metres short of the runway, turned over and burst into flames.• When he fired his grin, Sammler, himself nearly a corpse, burst into life.• There were noises to fear-something substantialripped from the undercarriage and the thumping of a tireburst intoshreds.• When I told Miranda, she burst intotears, so I said lets take some flowers.• Afterwards, she went straight to the ladies' room and burst into tears.• He took a deepbreath, standing quietly by the door, and then surprised himself by bursting into tears.• The raider, carrying what appeared to be a firearm, burst into Victoria Wines in Woodrow Avenue, Marton, Middlesbrough.
burst into song• He felt so happy he wanted to burst into song.• The orchestra played a few notes and the choirburst into song.• And indeed, from this loftysiteLoch Arkaig itself is a vision to make you burst into song.• And with that he clasped both hands gently over his chest and burst into song.• When the choir commenced the first carol, even the most self-conscious among them burst into song.• She burst into songs between the stories.• From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter, and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night.
burst into flames/flame• DadMarkmanaged to carry her to safety before the alarmburst into flames.• Directly ahead, a pair of stately old coconuttreesburst into flame.• The airliner struck the ground some 50 metres short of the runway, turned over and burst into flames.• Several of the vehiclesburst into flames, according to initial reports.• They had both burst into flames after the explosion, police said.• Like a sheet of crepepaper, the wooden house burst into flames and burned to the ground in minutes.• There is just one drawback to their islandparadise: every so often it bursts into flame beneath them.• The bomb, thrown out of the Ford Cortina's passengerwindow, burst into flames in the road.