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eruption

/ih-ruhp-shuhn/US // ɪˈrʌp ʃən //

喷发,爆发,爆裂,爆炸

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an issuing forth suddenly and violently; outburst; outbreak.
    • : Geology. the ejection of molten rock, steam, etc., as from a volcano or geyser.
    • : something that is erupted or ejected, as molten rock, volcanic ash, or steam.
    • : Pathology. the breaking out of a rash or the like.a rash or exanthem.

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Examples

  • Palladino, she said, was being used to address “bimbo eruptions,” and had been successful at keeping a number of the alleged scandals out of print.

  • The heat eventually escaped through radiation and volcanic eruptions.

  • Those eruptions release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and produce fresh new rock for weathering.

  • Steamboat also seemed to show a seasonal eruption cycle, bursting forth more often during the summer than in the winter.

  • In terms of sheer number of aerosols sent into the stratosphere, the Australian plumes were on par with the strongest volcanic eruptions in the last 25 years.

  • The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

  • The animals are supposedly evacuating themselves in anticipation of an eruption at the park, which sits on a huge volcanic system.

  • That video of bison fleeing Yellowstone in anticipation of a volcanic eruption?

  • His controversial tweet marks yet another controversial eruption by a Republican congressman around an Obama speech to Congress.

  • His views are not shared by Vivien Magdy, a 25-year-old who lost her fiancé during another notorious eruption of violence.

  • An extraordinary eruption of mount Vesuvius commenced, which in ten days had advanced ten miles from its original source.

  • An eruption of mount tna, which extended its ravages four leagues around, and buried several persons alive.

  • A long, long time ago, the boy's father cannot tell how many years have passed, there was a terrible eruption.

  • Great eruption of the Scaptar Jokul, in Iceland, commenced, and continued several days (see 18th).

  • No eruptive mountains, nor any traces of recent volcanic eruption, have yet been observed in any part of Australia.