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。
The weakened refugees had little resistance to infection of any kind and cholera spread through the camps like wildfire. 虚弱的难民对任何传染病都毫无抵抗力,霍乱在难民营中迅速蔓延开来。