Thunder
['θʌndə] or ['θʌndɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning.
(verb.) utter words loudly and forcefully; '`Get out of here,' he roared'.
(verb.) to make or produce a loud noise; 'The river thundered below'; 'The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle'.
(verb.) move fast, noisily, and heavily; 'The bus thundered down the road'.
(verb.) be the case that thunder is being heard; 'Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed'.
哈洛錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
(n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
(n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
(n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
(n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
(n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
(n.) To utter violent denunciation.
(v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
伊米莉亚整理
解釋/意思:
n. the deep rumbling sound after a flash of lightning a thunderbolt: any loud noise: an alarming denunciation.—v.i. to make thunder: to sound as thunder.—v.t. to give out with noise and terror: to publish a denunciation.—ns. Thun′derbolt a bolt or shaft of lightning preceding a peal of thunder: anything sudden and irresistible: a daring or irresistible hero: ecclesiastical denunciation; Thun′der-clap a sudden peal of thunder: the report of an explosion of electricity in the clouds; Thun′der-cloud a cloud charged with electricity which generally produces lightning and thunder; Thun′derer; Thun′dering the report of a discharge of electricity in the clouds: thunder.—adj. unusually big tremendous.—adv. Thun′deringly.—adjs. Thun′derless without thunder; Thun′der-like (Shak.) like thunder as a loud noise; Thun′derous giving forth a sound like thunder awful.—adv. Thun′derously.—ns. Thun′der-peal a clap of thunder; Thun′der-plump a heavy fall of rain in a thunder-storm; Thun′der-shower a shower accompanied with thunder or a short heavy shower from a thunder-cloud; Thun′der-stone (Shak.) a stone fabulously supposed to be hurled by thunder and to do the damage of lightning a thunderbolt: (geol.) a belemnite so called from its dart-like shape; Thun′der-storm continued discharges of electricity from the clouds producing lightning and thunder and generally accompanied with heavy rain.—v.t. Thun′der-strike to strike as by lightning.—n. Thun′der-stroke (Shak.) a stroke or blast by lightning.—adjs. Thun′der-struck struck by lightning: astonished: struck dumb; Thun′dery indicative of thunder or attended by it.
多琳校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened with reverses in your business. To be in a thunder shower, denotes trouble and grief are close to you. To hear the terrific peals of thunder, which make the earth quake, portends great loss and disappointment.
珍妮整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Moreover, he felt he was seen through, and Peter grew black as a thunder-cloud. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Jo still looked like a thunder cloud, and nothing went well all day. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the _Gloria Scott_. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I heard the thunder of the sea on the sand-bank at the mouth of the bay. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- To obey, ma'am,' thundered Mr. Bumble. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Such was the awful sentence that thundered from his lips. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- When it thundered loudly, the ribald Aristarchus could ask him: Won't you do something of the sort, oh Son of Zeus? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For more than an hour his eloquence (assisted by his glorious voice) thundered through the sacred edifice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I ask you again,' thundered the doctor, 'are you, on your solemn oaths, able to identify that boy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- When it thundered very loudly, he glanced towards Coketown, having it in his mind that some of the tall chimneys might be struck by lightning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Before another word could be said by anybody, a thundering knock at the street door startled us all. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- At midnight a number of them came thundering at our door, demanding more rum, of which we took no notice. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He heard the thundering and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him as if his late angry mood were going about trying to get at him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Their time is the day of vengeance; their signal, the word of the Lord of hosts, thundering with the voice of His excellency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The thundering carriage-and-pair encountered were now likewise recalled, as well as that puzzling signal, the waved handkerchief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Hark to the thundering in the chimney, and the surging noise! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He wound up this vehement declaration by looking round upon us with a most agreeable smile and suddenly thundering, Ha, ha, ha! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was the law of my fathers, said Rebecca; it was delivered in thunders and in storms upon the mountain of Sinai, in cloud and in fire. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The carriage thunders past, but what do I see, or fancy I see, as it rushes by? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- By a thousand Thunders, you shall see me again! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Here roared no utterance of Rome's thunders, no blasting of the breath of her displeasure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He was therefore especially gratified in August, 1881, at th e thunders of applause which greeted his appearance at the International Medical Congress in L ondon. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the deepest calm their leaves are never quite hushed, and in high wind a flood rushes, a sea thunders above you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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