英语词典 · 单词释义
torrent
英 ['tɒr(ə)nt] 美 ['tɔrənt]
这里集中整理“torrent”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 奔流；倾注；迸发；连续不断
- n. (Torrent)人名；(法)托朗；(西)托伦特
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: torrents;
助记提示
1. torr- + -ent.
2. It was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that 'boil' or 'bubble' because of their strong current.
3. => 就像火山迸发、喷发，火山岩浆、火山熔岩迸发、沸腾一样。
4. 如今的含义是一种比喻、引申、泛化。
2. It was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that 'boil' or 'bubble' because of their strong current.
3. => 就像火山迸发、喷发，火山岩浆、火山熔岩迸发、沸腾一样。
4. 如今的含义是一种比喻、引申、泛化。
中文词源
torrent 激流，湍流，洪流
来自拉丁语 torrere,燃烧，使干燥，来自 PIE*ters,干的，词源同 terrain,torrid.比喻用法，后用 于指激流，湍流，因其咆哮的声音如同热水沸腾而得名。
英文词源
- torrent
- torrent: [17] Despite its firm connections with ‘water’, torrent comes from a source that meant ‘scorch, parch’. This was Latin torrēre, which also produced English toast and torrid [16] and is related to thirst. Its present participle torrēns was used metaphorically as an adjective of streams that ‘boil’ or ‘bubble’ because of their strong current, and it was in this sense that it passed as a noun via Italian torrente and French torrent into English.
=> thirst, toast, torrid - torrent (n.)
- "rapid stream," c. 1600, from Middle French torrent (16c.) and directly from Latin torrentem (nominative torrens) "rushing, roaring" (of streams), also "a rushing stream," originally as an adjective "roaring, boiling, burning, parching, hot, inflamed," present participle of torrere "to parch" (see terrain). Extension to any onrush (of words, feelings, etc.) first recorded 1640s.
双语例句
- 1. They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse.
- 他们被推来搡去，受到大肆的谩骂攻击。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
- 实地考察时要穿过一条水流湍急的河。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
- 旅途中要穿过一条水势凶猛的急流。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The stream had become a raging torrent.
- 小溪变成了一条汹涌的急流。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. After the winter rains, the stream becomes a raging torrent .
- 冬雨过后，溪流湍急。
来自《权威词典》
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