foudre

/foo-druh/US // ˈfu drə //

闪电,闪电式,闪电般地,闪电般的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural fou·dres [foo-druh]. /ˈfu drə/. French.
- : a large cask for maturing, storing, and transporting wine.

He had done the same thing a hundred times before; but this, he told himself, was the coup de foudre—the thunderbolt.
If you meet with any superlatively good, and not else, pray send over a 'foudre' of it, and write to him.
The small shot went whistling through La Foudre's shrouds with some slight damage to her canvas.
La Foudre under cover of the darkness had struck away to The northeast with every rag of canvas on her yards.
It was le coup de foudre of a French writer on the affections—M. Stendhal.