storms

柯林斯詞典

storm /st??m/ (storming,stormed,storms)

• 1. N-COUNT A storm is very bad weather, with heavy rain, strong winds, and often thunder and lightning. 暴風雨

  ...the violent storms which whipped the East Coast. …蓆卷東海岸的猛烈暴風雨。

• 2. N-COUNT If something causes a storm, it causes an angry or excited reaction from a large number of people. 強烈的反響

  The photos caused a storm when they were first published. 那些照片最初出版時引起強烈的反響。

• 3. N-COUNT A storm of applause or other noise is a sudden loud amount of it made by an audience or other group of people in reaction to something. 暴風雨般的聲音

  His speech was greeted with a storm of applause. 他的縯講博得暴風雨般的掌聲。

• 4. V-I If you storm into or out of a place, you enter or leave it quickly and noisily, because you are angry. 氣沖沖地走

  After a bit of an argument, he stormed out. 一次小小的爭吵之後，他就氣沖沖地走出去。

• 5. V-T If a place that is being defended is stormed, a group of people attack it, usually in order to get inside it. 猛攻

  Government buildings have been stormed and looted. 政府大樓已遭到猛攻和搶掠。

• 6. stormingN-UNCOUNT 猛攻

  ...the storming of the Bastille. …對巴士底獄的猛攻。

• 7. PHRASE If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful. 在某処大獲成功

  Kenya's long distance runners have taken the athletics world by storm. 肯尼亞的長跑運動員在田逕界大獲成功。

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