Shower
['ʃaʊə] or ['ʃaʊɚ]
解释:
(noun.) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; 'he took a shower after the game'.
(noun.) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you; 'they installed a shower in the bathroom'.
(noun.) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; 'a little shower of rose petals'; 'a sudden cascade of sparks'.
(noun.) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person; 'her friends organized a baby shower for her when she was expecting'.
(noun.) a brief period of precipitation; 'the game was interrupted by a brief shower'.
(verb.) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower; 'You should shower after vigorous exercise'.
(verb.) spray or sprinkle with; 'The guests showered rice on the couple'.
(verb.) rain abundantly; 'Meteors showered down over half of Australia'.
(verb.) provide abundantly with; 'He showered her with presents'.
乔斯林编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who shows or exhibits.
(n.) That which shows; a mirror.
(n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
(n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
(n.) A copious supply bestowed.
(v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
(v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
(v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
坎蒂丝手打
解释:
n. a fall of rain or hail of short duration: a copious and rapid fall: a liberal supply of anything.—v.t. to wet with rain: to bestow liberally.—v.i. to rain in showers.—ns. Show′er-bath a bath in which water is showered upon one from above: the apparatus for giving a bath by showering water on the person; Show′eriness the state of being showery.—adjs. Show′erless without showers; Show′ery abounding with showers.
埃文编辑
娱乐性解释:
To dream that you are in a shower, foretells that you will derive exquisite pleasure in the study of creation and the proper placing of selfish pleasures. See Rain.
贝茜手打
例句:
- On sped my rainbow, fast as light; I flew as in a dream; For glorious rose upon my sight That child of Shower and Gleam. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- A shower of tears terminated her sad harangue. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I will not sit down upon nothing, she replies with a shower of nods. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- These letters have been falling about like a shower of lady-birds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- We rested, unpacked, and shopped a little between the showers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- His nose once brought to it, shall be held to it by these hands, Mr Venus, till the sparks flies out in showers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- How have I delighted, as I walked, to see them driven in showers about me by the wind! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- We were greeted with an endless round of applause and showered with ornaments of gold, platinum, silver, and precious jewels. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Pale as the snow that showered about her, with clasped hands, Idris stood before me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She showered upon him the tenderest epithets that love could devise, he addressed her from the North Pole of his frozen heart as the Spouse of Christ! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Compliments, invitations, and presents were showered upon him in abundance from all quarters; his society was courted by all, and all appeared proud of his acquaintance. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
编辑:娜塔莎