Hailstone
['heɪlstəʊn] or ['helston]
解释:
(n.) A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
巴顿整理
例句:
- My little morsel of human affection, which I prized as if it were a solid pearl, must melt in my fingers and slip thence like a dissolving hailstone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A man's life being to be taken and the price of it got, the hailstones to arrest the purpose must lie larger and deeper than those. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
校对:瓦珥