torrent

• n. 奔流；倾注；迸发；连续不断
• n. (Torrent)人名；(法)托朗；(西)托伦特

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。

1. a heavy rain

2. a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid);

"the houses were swept away in the torrent"

3. an overwhelming number or amount;

"a flood of requests"

"a torrent of abuse"

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.

After the winter rains, the stream becomes a raging torrent .

冬雨过后，溪流湍急。

牛津词典

The rain was coming down in torrents .

大雨如注。

牛津词典

a torrent of abuse/criticism

连珠炮似的谩骂 / 批评

牛津词典

a torrent of words

滔滔不绝的话语

牛津词典

Torrents of water gushed into the reservoir...

急流涌入了水库。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The rain came down in torrents, and we could see nothing…

大雨倾盆而下，我们看不见任何东西。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He turned round and directed a torrent of abuse at me.

他转过身来冲我劈头盖脸地骂了一通。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

…a £45,000 offer which prompted a torrent of criticism in the media.

激起媒体一片指责的 4.5 万英镑的出价

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The scorching torrent was enough to wither the face of the corpse.

这一阵激流似的痛骂,大可以使死人面上失色.

辞典例句

Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence.

眼见这不可遏止的悲恸勃然爆发,埃莉诺不可能保持沉默了.

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The text introduces preparation and working gist of disposing torrent gutter body.

介绍了急流槽槽身处治前的准备工作和急流槽槽身现场处治维修工作的要点.

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Only minds of extraordinary toughness and originality could resist such a torrent of suggestion.

只有非常坚强和有创见的头脑的人才能抵得住如此滔滔不绝的煽动.

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An angry torrent rolls thunderously on for a thousand li.

怒涛滚滚,奔泻千里.

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His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck.

28他的气如涨溢的河水,直涨到颈项,要用毁灭的筛箩, 筛净列国.

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The torrent picked up buildings, animals, and human beings and sent them crashing down the spillway.

洪水沿路夹带建筑物残骸 、 动物及人进入泄洪道.

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Stand firm against the torrent of information.

坚决对抗资讯洪流.

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She attacked him with a torrent of abuse.

她用连珠炮似的谩骂来攻击他.

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The following summer a raging torrent swept all of these away.

第二年夏,一阵山洪把这些全都冲走了.

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The river Tiber was no longer a foaming torrent overflowing the plains.

台伯河已不再是漫溢平原的泛起泡沫的急流.

辞典例句

A torrent of water swept down the valley.

一股洪流冲下山谷.

辞典例句

NIV His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck.

28[和合]他的气如涨溢的河32水,直涨到颈33项,要用毁灭的筛箩, 筛净列国.

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Turn up the tap, and it abruptly sprays out in a chaotic ( but describable ) torrent.

把龙头开大, 它会突然喷射出混沌的 ( 但还可描述的 ) 急流.

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The houses were swept away in the torrent.

房屋被洪水冲走了.

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The torrent scoured a gully down the hillside.

那急流顺山坡而下冲出一条水沟.

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The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees?

风是漆黑的激流,正在树林间迸裂?

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A torrent of water swept away everything in its path.

洪水冲走了它所经之地的所有东西.

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We immediately barraged the enemy stronghold with a torrent of rifle fire.

我们立刻用密集的步枪火力攻击敌人据点.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

In our country, an obstructed internal and external information communication exists in crisis torrent section.

在我国, 危机治理部门内部、外部信息沟通不通畅.

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Scarcely had I uttered a word when he rounded on me with a torrent of abuse.

我还没开口他就对我破口大骂起来.

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He was answered with a torrent of oaths.

他所得到的回报是一连串的咒骂声.

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