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thunder

/thuhn-der/US // ˈθʌn dər //UK // (ˈθʌndə) //

雷霆,雷鸣,雷霆之怒,雷鸣般的声音

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
    • : any loud, resounding noise: the thunder of applause.
    • : a threatening or startling utterance, denunciation, or the like.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give forth thunder: It thundered last night.
    • : to make a loud, resounding noise like thunder: The artillery thundered in the hills.
    • : to utter loud or vehement denunciations, threats, or the like.
    • : to speak in a very loud tone.
    • : to move or go with a loud noise or violent action: The train thundered through the village.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to strike, drive, inflict, give forth, etc., with loud noise or violent action.

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Examples

  • The seismometer has even been known to pick up the faint thunder of dust devils whirling across the cold desert world.

  • He’d worried that if crews slowed the Catalan fires, they might cause it to form a pyrocumulonimbus—a violent cloud of fire, thunder, and wind like the one that formed over the Creek Fire.

  • Sure, Hulk is strong, Thor can control thunder and Captain Marvel can fly and shoot energy beams.

  • As for the possibility of thunderstorms, we cannot rule out some rumbles of thunder in the heavier rain cells.

  • Unfortunately, rains arrive tomorrow and could be heavy at times with even a rumble or two of thunder.

  • I inherited the Arnold Family Thunder ThighsTM, which was a source of frequent teasing and distress for me as a child.

  • Watch your back Liam Neeson, here comes Kevin Costner to steal your older-leading-man thunder!

  • Zilch, what with Showtime's other steamy sex-heavy drama, The Affair, stealing its thunder.

  • And the second I arrived and did my last step, there was thunder and rain pouring.

  • And then the flares light up the sky and the building begins to shake from the deadly thunder of Protective Edge.

  • The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.

  • The tops of the hills were laden with thunder-clouds, and the turbid atmosphere laboured with the stifling Sirocco.

  • The menace of a thunder-cloud approached as in his childhood's dream; disaster lurked behind the quiet outer show.

  • One day the hopes of all were aroused by a distant roar in the mountains, only to be dashed by finding it to be thunder.

  • It was a few days after the bursting of this domestic thunder-cloud, that Gilbert and Dorothy were thrown alone together.