mass noun
1
- atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer雪：
we were trudging through deep snow
我们在厚厚的积雪中艰难地跋涉
(snows) the first snows of winter.
冬天的头几场雪。
2
- something that resembles snow in colour or texture, in particular（在颜色、质地方面）像雪的东西, 尤指：
2.1
- a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal（因干扰或信号差而导致）电视或雷达屏幕上出现的闪烁雪花。
2.2
- informal cocaine〈非正式〉可卡因。
2.3
- a dessert or other dish resembling snow似雪的餐后甜点; 似雪的菜肴：
vanilla snow.
香草冰激凌。
2.4
- with modifier a frozen gas resembling snow似雪的冷冻气体：
carbon dioxide snow.
干冰霜。
1
- no obj.
it snows, it is snowing
snow falls下雪： it's not snowing so heavily now.
现在雪下得不是那么大了。
1.1
be snowed in /up
be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow被雪封住（或困住）：I was snowed in for a week.
我被大雪困了一个星期。
1.2
- with obj. figurative used to describe the arrival of an overwhelming quantity of something〈喻〉（像雪花般）大量涌来：
in the last week it had snowed letters and business.
上周信件和生意像雪花般涌来。
1.3
- with obj. sprinkle or scatter (something), causing it to fall like snow使（某物）像雪花般飘落, 使洒落：
the ceiling is snowing green flakes of paint on to the seats.
天花板上的绿色油漆片像雪花般纷纷洒落在座位上。
2
- with obj. informal, chiefly N. Amer. mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words〈非正式, 主北美〉用花言巧语误导（或迷惑）：
they would snow the public into believing that all was well.
他们会用花言巧语迷惑公众, 使他们相信形势一片大好。
派生词
snowless
adjectivesnowlike
adjective词源
Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha.
短语动词
snow someone under （常作be snowed under）
- overwhelm someone with a large quantity of something, especially work（用大量事物, 尤指工作）使某人忙得不可开交：
he's been snowed under with urgent cases.
这些紧急的案子让他忙得不可开交。