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pouring

/pawr, pohr/US // pɔr, poʊr //UK // (pɔː) //

浇灌,浇注,浇筑,淋漓尽致

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to send flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
    • : to emit or propel, especially continuously or rapidly: The hunter poured bullets into the moving object.
    • : to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood: to pour out one's troubles to a friend.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number: Crowds poured from the stadium after the game.
    • : to flow forth or along; stream: Floodwaters poured over the embankments.
    • : to rain heavily: It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of pouring.
    • : an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of insults.
    • : a heavy fall of rain.
    • : a wine or other beverage: a list of the best pours.

Phrases

  • pour cold water on
  • pour oil on troubled waters
  • pour on the coal
  • pour out one's heart
  • it never rains but it pours

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He was grabbing my hips and he was pouring with perspiration and he had this cheesy smile.

  • Q: What was your sensation when they were pouring water... what did you physically feel?

  • However, Native Americans unhappy about the white settlers pouring into the Ohio Valley were reportedly waiting to attack him.

  • There was a time when the love-struck couple would kiss in the pouring rain.

  • The next day, he spent the morning at Memorial Stadium pouring cokes at an Oriole party for a hundred poor children.

  • Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.

  • The capture of Independence greatly elated the guerrillas, and recruits came pouring in by the hundreds.

  • She meets a sympathetic soul, and you come across her pouring into his ear the love and despair of a lifetime.

  • “We saw the smoke pouring out of the window,” and she darted in and started up the front stairway.

  • He saw this water pouring over other dams, turning water wheels, giving power to mills and factories.