bucket
bucket
noun
[no obj.]
bucketful
(pl. -fuls)
noun(pl. -fuls)
语源
noun
- a roughly cylindrical open container, typically made of metal or plastic and having a handle, used to hold and carry liquids
桶，水桶，吊桶
■the contents of such a container or the amount it can contain
一桶的量
she emptied a bucket of water over them.
她往他们身上倒了一桶水。
■(buckets)(informal)large quantities of liquid, typically rain or tears
(非正式)大量液体（尤指雨水或眼泪）
I wept buckets.
我泪如泉涌。
■a compartment on the outer edge of a waterwheel
（水车的）戽斗
■the scoop of a dredger or grain elevator
（挖掘机的）铲斗，（谷物升运器的）勺斗
■a scoop attached by two movable forks to the front of a loader, digger, or tractor
（装卸设备，挖掘器，拖拉机等前面安装的）挖斗，铲斗
■(Computing)a unit of data that can be transferred from a backing store in a single operation
(计算机)存储桶
[no obj.]
- (Brit. informal)(it buckets, it is bucketing , etc.)rain heavily
(英，非正式)下大雨
it was still bucketing down.
天还在下大雨。 - [with adverbial of direction](informal)(of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily
(非正式)（车辆）快速颠簸着行驶
the car came bucketing out of a side road.
小汽车颠簸着从边上一条路冲了出来。
bucketful
(pl. -fuls)
noun(pl. -fuls)
语源
- Middle English : from Anglo-Norman French buquet 'tub, pail', perhaps from Old English būc 'belly, pitcher'
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