单词乎

pelting

音标['peltiŋ]

汉语翻译

a. 没价值的, 微不足道的, (非正式)发怒的

英语解释

名词 pelting:

  1. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
    同义词:rain

动词 pelt:

  1. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
    同义词:pelt, bombard
  2. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
    同义词:pepper, pelt
  3. rain heavily
    同义词:pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

例句

  1. She was last seen pelting along the road as if devils were after her.
    有人最后看见她沿着道路一个劲地飞跑,好像魔鬼在追她似的。
  2. I'm not going out there-it's really pelting down.
    我不去那儿了,雨实在太大了。
  3. It was pelting with rain.
    大雨如注。
  4. The rain was pelting down.
    大雨倾盆。

详细解释


pelt.ing

adj.Archaic (形容词)【古语】
Paltry; petty:
没有价值的;小的:
例句:
.This land . . . /Is now leas`d out . . . /Like to a tenement or pelting farm.(Shakespeare)
.这片土地…/象一套房子或小农场一般…/现在已被租出.(莎士比亚)


来源:
Perhaps from dialectal pelt [trash]
可能源自 方言 pelt [废物]


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