Volley
['vɒlɪ] or ['vɑli]
解释:
(noun.) a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces.
(verb.) utter rapidly; 'volley a string of curses'.
(verb.) make a volley.
(verb.) discharge in, or as if in, a volley; 'the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians'.
(verb.) hit before it touches the ground; 'volley the tennis ball'.
(verb.) be dispersed in a volley; 'gun shots volleyed at the attackers'.
手打:利--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
(n.) A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
(n.) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
(n.) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
(v. t.) To discharge with, or as with, a volley.
(v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
(v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.
(v. i.) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
校对:佩里
同义词及近义词:
n. Discharge, emission, burst, explosion, blast.
埃尔顿校对
解释:
n. a flight of shot: the discharge of many small-arms at once: an outburst of many at once: in tennis and lawn-tennis a hard return of the ball before it reaches the ground—half-volley is a return by striking the ball just as it touches or rises from the ground:—pl. Voll′eys.—v.t. to discharge in a volley.—v.i. to fly together as missiles: to sound together: in lawn-tennis to use the stroke so called.
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例句:
- Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had first appeared. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The hitherto inert and passive mill woke; fire flashed from its empty window-frames; a volley of musketry pealed sharp through the Hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The old reprobate with the surplice burst into a volley of bad language. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The exposure of a single head would bring a volley from our soldiers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- About a hundred thoughts volleyed through my mind in a moment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And then Kerchak emitted the volleying challenge of his kind. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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