Thunderbolt
['θʌndəbəʊlt] or ['θʌndɚbolt]
解释:
(n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
(n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
(n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
(n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
整理:李奥娜
例句:
- See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows its descent? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- If a thunderbolt had fallen on me,' said the father, 'it would have shocked me less than this! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- To know that Marianne was in town wasin the same languagea thunderbolt. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- If he ever comes back, I'll poison him,' thought Mr. Pott, as he turned into the little back office where he prepared his thunderbolts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Thunderbolts and daggers! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- The old man in his dreams of the past rejoices in his achievements, for he has stolen the fires of Prometheus and forged anew the thunderbolts of Jove for the arts of peace. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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