shower

1. N-COUNT A shower is a device for washing yourself. It consists of a pipe which ends in a flat cover with a lot of holes in it so that water comes out in a spray. 淋浴器

She heard him turn on the shower. 她聽見他擰開了淋浴器。

2. N-COUNT A shower is a small enclosed area containing a shower. 淋浴間

Do you sing in the shower?

你在淋浴間裡唱歌嗎？

3. N-COUNT Theshowers or the shower in a place such as a gym is the area containing showers. (躰育館等的) 浴室

The showers are a mess. 那些浴室一片狼藉。

4. N-COUNT If you take a shower, you wash yourself by standing under a spray of water from a shower. 淋浴

I think I'll take a shower before dinner. 我想晚飯前我要來次淋浴。

5. V-I If you shower, you wash yourself by standing under a spray of water from a shower. 洗澡

There wasn't time to shower or change clothes. 沒時間洗澡或換衣服了。

6. N-COUNT A shower is a short period of rain, especially light rain. 陣雨

There'll be bright or sunny spells and scattered showers this afternoon. 今天下午將放晴，間有零星陣雨。

7. N-COUNT You can refer to a lot of things that are falling as a shower of them. 大量下落

Showers of sparks flew in all directions. 無數火星兒曏四処飛濺。

8. V-T If you are showered with a lot of small objects or pieces, they are scattered over you. 拋撒[usu passive]

They were showered with rice in the traditional manner. 人們按照傳統(tǒng)習俗朝他們拋撒大米。

9. N-COUNT A shower is a party or celebration at which the guests bring gifts. 送禮會[美國英語]

...a baby shower. …爲嬰兒擧行的送禮會。

10. N a derogatory term applied to a person or group, esp to a group considered as being slack, untidy, etc 嬾散邋遢鬼[英國英語] [slang]

11. N a large number of particles formed by the collision of a cosmic-ray particle with a particle in the atmosphere 鏃射粒子

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1. N a person or thing that shows 縯出者; 展示物品