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drizzly

/driz-uhl/US // ˈdrɪz əl //UK // (ˈdrɪzəl) //

细雨绵绵,小雨,细雨,毛毛雨

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    driz·zled, driz·zling.

    • : to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle: It drizzled throughout the night.
    • : to fall in fine drops.
v.有主动词 verb
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    driz·zled, driz·zling.

    • : to pour in a fine stream: Drizzle melted butter over the breadcrumb topping.
    • : to rain or let fall in fine drops or particles; sprinkle: He then drizzled grated cheese over the hot pasta.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a very light rain.
    • : Meteorology. precipitation consisting of numerous minute droplets of water less than 0.02 inch in diameter.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Freezing rain and drizzle is starting to transition to sleet and, in our northwest areas, some snow.

  • Even after the steadier precipitation subsides, patchy freezing drizzle may linger, with spottier heavier mixed precipitation.

  • Temperatures only slowly lift up through the 30s with a few spots potentially touching 40 after the light rain and drizzle end by early afternoon.

  • After the possibility of 1 to 3 inches of snow this evening, freezing rain and drizzle could add a slick glaze into early Tuesday morning.

  • Sadly, I never quite got around to testing the rumor out for myself on the days I rode my bicycle past the library, hurrying to get out of the drizzle or morning fog.

  • But a drizzly ten minutes later, an exuberantly overweight man with a bright-red face suddenly roared his taxi around the corner.

  • On a drizzly morning in Cape Cod, all talk of birthers and beer summits was silenced as hundreds said goodbye to a fallen soldier.

  • One hears that the globe is warming but we see little evidence of it here in drizzly London.

  • It was a drizzly day and the ground wet, so the grave soon filled with water.

  • As I floundered upward in the late spring rain, gaining the bare summit under the drizzly sky, a rush of dogs met me.

  • The cathedral clock struck three as he came out into the drizzly morning, and all the other clocks in the town took it up.

  • You take a night when there's one of these grisly, drizzly, gray mists, and then there isn't any particular shape to a shore.

  • It is a drizzly, snowy morning, a kind of moisture that laughs at so-called waterproofs, and would penetrate an air-pump.