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thunderclap

/thuhn-der-klap/US // ˈθʌn dərˌklæp //UK // (ˈθʌndəˌklæp) //

雷鸣般的掌声,霹雳啪啦,雷鸣般的响声,雷声大雨点小

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a crash of thunder.
    • : something resembling a thunderclap, as in loudness or unexpectedness.

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Examples

  • Now, with the publication of her first book-length collection in English, “Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm,” in a lyrical translation by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, a new audience has a chance to hear the thunderclap.

  • At Noether’s funeral, mathematician Hermann Weyl compared her sudden passing to “the echo of a thunderclap.”

  • For some, the revelation earlier this month hit like a thunderclap, upending how they thought about the school.

  • This lurid embrace of art and life was not an isolated thunderclap.

  • These changes, however, cannot be accomplished with a moral thunderclap.

  • And then (thunderclap) one of wine's darkest nemeses appeared: the artichoke.

  • The sudden thunderclap gives warning that beyond the calm horizon the storm is gathering.

  • Do these gentlemen really feel the thunderclap or the enchantment of an object of art?

  • We imagined we had educated it out of them; they thought so, too; the Interdict woke them up like a thunderclap!

  • A sudden thunderclap startled them now into consciousness of the scene about them.

  • Then, a few days ago, there came a thunderclap; and teachers and girls were alike amazed to find that you were no longer a member.