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单词 fulmination
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Definition of fulmination in English:

fulmination

noun ˌfʌlmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌfʊlmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌfəlməˈneɪʃən
  • 1An expression of vehement protest.

    严词谴责,强烈抗议

    the fulminations of media moralists

    媒体道德家的强烈谴责。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can he have learned so little from his travels that he is unable to engage with Roger's fulminations?
    • Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism as depicted by the ‘orthodox’ economists are coming to pass.
    • Their epic journey is regularly intercut, slightly laboriously, with the fulminations of Mr Neville, the colonial official prosecuting this policy, played by Kenneth Branagh.
    • To whom should we float our wild conspiracy theories and misanthropic fulminations on people we disagree with, if anything we say to journalists is suddenly on the record?
    • A great deal of 20th Century Communism can be derived from the fulminations of three or four generations of a small class of fulminating intellectuals.
    • It would thus be a mistake to regard the rumblings from the right as solely a partisan matter, just as it would be a mistake to regard the fulminations of the counterrevisionists as solely an academic matter.
    • The journalist, who had been asked to comment on differences between the two Koreas, triggered the fulmination by replying that South Koreans are allowed to criticize their leader.
    • So stark were his recent fulminations that I had to rub eyes and re-read his latest expressions of outraged dignity.
    • The fulminations of the advocates and their amplifiers in the press had policymakers completely cowed - until 1996.
    • Just read the Letters page of this newspaper, full of fulminations against the unionists and the Democratic Unionists.
    • The object of the present invention is to realize a system apt to eliminate almost entirely both this type of risk of fulminations and also the risk of short circuits.
    • There is a more serious aspect to Mr Russell's fulminations.
    • Without further comment, we can disregard his fulminations on these topics.
    • Despite their fulminations against unpatriotic cultural relativists in US universities, what conservative commentators are really railing against is their own inability to project a clear and inspiring cause.
    • The right-wing media in the US have been full of fulminations against ‘the French,’ ‘the Japanese’ and so forth.
    • The $800 million stadium plan has been nurtured for years without any public fulminations from the team's principal owner, George Steinbrenner, who spent time in decades past threatening to move to Manhattan or New Jersey.
    • Despite Melott's fulminations against common sense,’ his object of scorn is an insulated elite the Kansas Board of Education.
    • Despite the media's constant fulminations against Ireland's libel laws, the appetite for taking a high-cost libel suit to the High Court appears to be on the wane.
    • The fulminations were legendary; the general one was to rail against ‘the American imperialists, the Soviet social imperialists, and the Chinese revisionist imperialists.’
    • Certainly it would cause much greater harm than that caused by the fulminations of some unknown student.
    Synonyms
    protest, objection, complaint, rant
    denunciation, condemnation, criticism, censure, disparagement, attack, broadside
    (fulminations) decrying, railing, invective, tirade, diatribe, harangue, philippic, obloquy, execration, arraignment
    informal brickbat, tongue-lashing, bashing, blast
    British informal slating
    formal excoriation, vociferation, vituperation
  • 2A violent explosion or a flash like lightning.

    爆炸;如闪电般的闪光

    a second of silence, not long enough for the echo of the previous fulminations to fade away
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.
    Synonyms
    explosion, flash, crack, crash, bang, report, detonation, eruption, blowing up
    rumbling

Definition of fulmination in US English:

fulmination

nounˌfəlməˈneɪʃənˌfəlməˈnāSHən
usually fulminations
  • 1An expression of vehement protest.

    严词谴责,强烈抗议

    the fulminations of media moralists

    媒体道德家的强烈谴责。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Just read the Letters page of this newspaper, full of fulminations against the unionists and the Democratic Unionists.
    • The fulminations were legendary; the general one was to rail against ‘the American imperialists, the Soviet social imperialists, and the Chinese revisionist imperialists.’
    • Despite Melott's fulminations against common sense,’ his object of scorn is an insulated elite the Kansas Board of Education.
    • Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism as depicted by the ‘orthodox’ economists are coming to pass.
    • There is a more serious aspect to Mr Russell's fulminations.
    • The object of the present invention is to realize a system apt to eliminate almost entirely both this type of risk of fulminations and also the risk of short circuits.
    • Despite their fulminations against unpatriotic cultural relativists in US universities, what conservative commentators are really railing against is their own inability to project a clear and inspiring cause.
    • The fulminations of the advocates and their amplifiers in the press had policymakers completely cowed - until 1996.
    • To whom should we float our wild conspiracy theories and misanthropic fulminations on people we disagree with, if anything we say to journalists is suddenly on the record?
    • The $800 million stadium plan has been nurtured for years without any public fulminations from the team's principal owner, George Steinbrenner, who spent time in decades past threatening to move to Manhattan or New Jersey.
    • Without further comment, we can disregard his fulminations on these topics.
    • The journalist, who had been asked to comment on differences between the two Koreas, triggered the fulmination by replying that South Koreans are allowed to criticize their leader.
    • Their epic journey is regularly intercut, slightly laboriously, with the fulminations of Mr Neville, the colonial official prosecuting this policy, played by Kenneth Branagh.
    • Despite the media's constant fulminations against Ireland's libel laws, the appetite for taking a high-cost libel suit to the High Court appears to be on the wane.
    • A great deal of 20th Century Communism can be derived from the fulminations of three or four generations of a small class of fulminating intellectuals.
    • Can he have learned so little from his travels that he is unable to engage with Roger's fulminations?
    • So stark were his recent fulminations that I had to rub eyes and re-read his latest expressions of outraged dignity.
    • The right-wing media in the US have been full of fulminations against ‘the French,’ ‘the Japanese’ and so forth.
    • Certainly it would cause much greater harm than that caused by the fulminations of some unknown student.
    • It would thus be a mistake to regard the rumblings from the right as solely a partisan matter, just as it would be a mistake to regard the fulminations of the counterrevisionists as solely an academic matter.
    Synonyms
    protest, objection, complaint, rant
    1. 1.1 A violent explosion or a flash like lightning.
      爆炸;如闪电般的闪光
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In any case, the minister has since, as I noted above, artfully backed away from his previous excitable fulminations.
      Synonyms
      explosion, flash, crack, crash, bang, report, detonation, eruption, blowing up
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