pelting

柯林斯詞典

pelt /p?lt/ (pelting,pelted,pelts)

• 1. N-COUNT The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. (動物的) 皮

  ...a bed covered with beaver pelts. …一張鋪著海貍皮的牀。

• 2. V-T If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. 扔

  Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs. 一些年紀(jì)稍輕的人開始相互扔雪球。

• 3. N a blow 打擊

• 4. N speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt) 速度; 尤其在 at full pelt 中

• 5. V-I If the rain is pelting down, it is raining very hard. (雨) 猛烈地下[非正式] [usu cont]

  The rain now was pelting down. 雨這時正嘩嘩地下。

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