Drizzle
['drɪz(ə)l] or ['drɪzl]
解释:
(noun.) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower.
(verb.) moisten with fine drops; 'drizzle the meat with melted butter'.
(verb.) rain lightly; 'When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant'.
录入:鲁道夫--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
(v. t.) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
(n.) Fine rain or mist.
手打:雷克斯
同义词及近义词：
v. n. Rain (in small drops), mizzle.
手打:弗拉德
解释:
v.i. to rain in small drops.—v.t. (Shak.) to shed in small drops.—n. a small light rain.—adj. Drizz′ly.
整理:奥拉
例句:
- Then he turned to pursue his way homeward through the drizzle that had so greatly transformed the scene. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The lamp above was lit; it rained a November drizzle, as it had rained all day: the lamplight gleamed on the wet pavement. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Before daylight it started to drizzle. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The moon was supposed to rise but there was a mist over the town and it did not come up and in a little while it started to drizzle and we came in. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- We reached Louisville after night and, if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- On the Saturday it rained, a soft drizzling rain that held off at times. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The day had clouded over, and a drizzling rain set in at sunset. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It drizzled a little, shone a little, blew a little, and didn't make up its mind till it was too late for anyone else to make up theirs. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
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