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snowdrift

/snoh-drift/US // ˈsnoʊˌdrɪft //UK // (ˈsnəʊˌdrɪft) //

飘雪,流雪,雪花飘飘,漂雪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind.
    • : snow driven before the wind.

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Examples

  • In fact, the first ski area in this valley, Driftland, opened in 1951 on a massive, recurring snowdrift, reportedly so deep that it often lingered into summer.

  • In places like Rocky Mountain National Park, snowdrifts ripple over meadows, and creeks burble between shelves of ice.

  • My favorite began with a grainy black and white shot of a large snowdrift.

  • The crude, rusting poles are piled side-by-side in a snowdrift of steel on the floor of the Hirshhorn.

  • Where the last remnants of the snowdrift lingered yesterday the plow breaks the sod to-day.

  • Penny landed in a snowdrift at the river bank, her parka awry, goggles hanging on one ear.

  • The publisher waded through a shrunken snowdrift to a side door of the building.

  • Snowdrift of the mountains, Spindrift of the sea, You shall keep your kingdoms; Joscelyn for me!

  • Snowdrift of the mountains, Spindrift of the sea, Let us part the treasure Of the world in three.