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torrential

/taw-ren-shuhl, toh-, tuh-/US // tɔˈrɛn ʃəl, toʊ-, tə- //UK // (tɒˈrɛnʃəl, tə-) //

滔滔不绝,滔滔不绝的,滂沱大雨,滔滔不绝地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or having the nature of a torrent.
    • : resembling a torrent in rapidity or violence.
    • : falling in torrents: torrential rains.
    • : produced by the action of a torrent.
    • : violent, vehement, or impassioned.
    • : overwhelming; extraordinarily copious.

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Examples

  • In addition to the torrential rain and frequent lightning, the storm has also produced some small hail.

  • As the climate crisis continues, bringing extreme weather events like hard-to-contain wildfires, extended heat waves, droughts, and torrential rains or flooding, more of the world’s population will be exposed to those events.

  • In addition to torrential rain and frequent lightning, the storm may produce damaging wind gusts to 60 mph as well as some hail.

  • The rain was torrential, and the neighboring village was already flooding.

  • Some parts of the world are starting to experience more torrential rain than they ever expected.

  • But the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.

  • Sheets of torrential rains pouring down over the Land Rover sent its four wheels plunging into the mud.

  • Recent turnout has been massive, with over 150,000 people gathering for the ceremony even when there were torrential downpours.

  • Recent torrential rains in Rome flooded the only area where they are allowed to go outside.

  • I spent today in the Johannesburg Stadium, among 70,000 people who attended despite the torrential rain.

  • The thought of the biscuits troubled her, and the picture of them lying exposed in one of the torrential rains.

  • The torrential rains made the footing bad, and in the dim light it was hard to see what was coming.

  • Their home planet is a place of ever-clouded skies and constant torrential rains.

  • Torrential rain fell on the car and came dripping in from the juncture of the landaulette roof.

  • For three weeks of torpor Blake sat in the shadowy hotel, watching the torrential rains that deluged the coast.