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- a roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic and having a handle, used to hold and carry liquids桶, 水桶, 吊桶。
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- the contents of such a container or the amount it can contain一桶的量：
she emptied a bucket of water over them.
她往他们身上倒了一桶水。
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buckets
informal large quantities of liquid, typically rain or tears〈非正式〉大量液体（尤指雨水或眼泪）：I wept buckets.
我泪如泉涌。
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- a compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel（水车的）戽斗。
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- the scoop of a dredger or grain elevator（挖掘机的）铲斗; （谷物升运器的）勺斗。
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- a scoop attached by two movable forks to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor（装卸设备、挖掘机、拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗; 铲斗。
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- Computing a unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation【计算机】存储桶。
(bucketed, bucketing)no obj.
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- Brit. informal (it buckets, it is bucketing, etc.) rain heavily〈英, 非正式〉下大雨：
it was still bucketing down.
天还在下大雨。
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- with adverbial of direction informal (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily〈非正式〉（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶：
the car came bucketing out of a side road.
小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。
派生词
bucketful
noun （pl. -fuls）词源
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French buquet 'tub， pail'， perhaps from Old English būc 'belly， pitcher'.