Shower
['ʃaʊə] or ['ʃaʊɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
乔斯林編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
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解釋/意思:
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.
埃文編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
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.
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例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 簡·愛.
- A shower of tears terminated her sad harangue. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 維萊特.
- No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I will not sit down upon nothing, she replies with a shower of nods. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- These letters have been falling about like a shower of lady-birds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The pleasant showers and genial warmth of spring greatly altered the aspect of the earth. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- We rested, unpacked, and shopped a little between the showers. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His nose once brought to it, shall be held to it by these hands, Mr Venus, till the sparks flies out in showers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- How have I delighted, as I walked, to see them driven in showers about me by the wind! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- We were greeted with an endless round of applause and showered with ornaments of gold, platinum, silver, and precious jewels. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Pale as the snow that showered about her, with clasped hands, Idris stood before me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
編輯:娜塔莎