Torrent
['tɒr(ə)nt] or ['tɔrənt]
解释:
(noun.) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); 'the houses were swept away in the torrent'.
安迪编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
安琪编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Rapid stream, strong current.[2]. Rapid flow.
贝妮塔整理
解释:
n. a rushing stream: a strong or turbulent current.—adj. rushing in a stream.—ns. Torr′ent-bow a bow of prismatic colours formed above the spray of a torrent; Torr′ent-duck a merganser of genus Merganetta found in the swift water-courses of the Andes.—adj. Torren′tial of the nature of a torrent produced by the agency of rapid streams: overwhelmingly voluble.—n. Torrential′ity.—adv. Torren′tially.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are looking upon a rushing torrent, denotes that you will have unusual trouble and anxiety.
霍雷肖整理
例句:
- Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The heavy rains of a few days before had swelled the stream into a mad torrent, impassable except on bridges. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- For a moment she thought that she could stem the torrent, and that Raymond could be induced to hear reason from her. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Only minds of extraordinary toughness and originality could resist such a torrent of suggestion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The old man listened in astonishment to this lava-torrent of words which swept everything before it. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- At the opening of the bridge, one portion of which was for a railway, the shriek of the locomotive and the roar of the train mingled with the roar of the wild torrent 250 feet below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The road was a torrent of muddy snow-water. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Soldiers were being swept beneath the boiling torrent, never to rise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I was tempted to cease struggling with him--to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- This was the figure that now started forward, and burst into an animated torrent of words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The tears did not glisten there, as they did in Leinster's; but they fell in torrents as he attempted to take leave of me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The rain fell in torrents. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The stage was fifteen miles long, the night was dark, the wind high, and the rain pouring in torrents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The following morning the rain poured down in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It rained in torrents during the night of the 13th and the fore part of the day of the 14th. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The atmosphere was dense and heavy, while the rain fell in torrents on the heads of the mourners, and the wind whistled mournfully among the trees. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- At the fourth attempt to encounter him it began to rain in torrents, and she turned back. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It was very cold and the rain fell in torrents. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The genius which gave freedom to America and scattered torrents of light upon Europe, is returned to the bosom of the Divinity! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The atmosphere now began to threaten rain, which soon fell in torrents. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
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