Thunderbolt
['θʌndəbəʊlt] or ['θʌndɚbolt]
解釋/意思:
(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/造句/用法:
- See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows its descent? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If a thunderbolt had fallen on me,' said the father, 'it would have shocked me less than this! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- To know that Marianne was in town wasin the same languagea thunderbolt. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Thunderbolts and daggers! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
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