单词 | puddle |
释义 | puddleWord family nounpuddlerpuddlingpuddleadjectivepuddly Naturepud·dle /ˈpʌdl/ ●●○ noun [countableC] DNa small pool of liquid, especially rainwater 小水坑〔尤指雨水坑〕 Children splashed through the puddles. 孩子们噼噼啪啪地踩过一个个小水坑。 puddle of He had fallen asleep, his head resting in a puddle of beer. 他睡着了,脑袋耷拉在一摊啤酒中。 —puddle verb [intransitiveI] literary Rain trickled down the glass, puddling on the window sills. 雨水顺着玻璃窗往下淌,在窗台上积起一摊水。 Examples from the Corpus puddle• Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream.• Sometimes the blood oozed into great black puddles over which huge swarms of flies hovered.• Would you jump into puddles with me?• a mud puddle• George Cummings pulled out the stretcher with an oblong puddle of flesh and hair and rib.• The problem with such puddles, Rubberneck would suffer violent bellyaches and explosive diarrhoea.• He dashed across the puddles in the courtyard, lithe and athletic.• The ground is frozen, thin ice covers the puddles between the furrows of the empty gray field.• He shook his head to drive away some bottleneck flies straying from the vile puddle in front of the horse-faced young man. (1300-1400) Probably from Old English pudd “ditch” |
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