Avalanche
['ævəlɑːnʃ] or ['ævəlæntʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; 'the program brought an avalanche of mail'.
(noun.) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain.
(verb.) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow .
艾琳编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
(n.) A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
(n.) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
整理:伊冯
解释:
n. a mass of snow and ice sliding down from a mountain: a snow-slip.—v.i. Avāle′ (Spens.) to descend.—v.t. (Spens.) to cause to descend.
爱德华整理
例句:
- Now the riving and fall of icy rocks clave the air; now the thunder of the avalanche burst on our ears. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their anger? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I descended on the miserable man in an irresistible avalanche of indignation, and swept him from the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The avalanche had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The office of the Memphis Avalanche was in the same building. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- That avalanche and the thunder, now, was really a little like Burke. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Count, at last issuing from his dreadnoughtthreatened to overwhelm her with it as with an avalanche. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Dorothea's feelings had gathered to an avalanche, and there could be no further preparation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- And as to contending for a reform short of that, it is like asking for a bit of an avalanche which has already begun to thunder. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I fell under that titular avalanche a torn and blighted thing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
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