| 英语单词 | slew |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [sluː] 美 [sluː] |
| 中文释义 | n.沼地;回转;许多 v.转向 动词slay的过去式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) He faced a whole slew of problems. (2) This year has seen a whole slew of novels set in Hong Kong. (3) The car slewed round on the icy road. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他面临了一大堆的问题。 (2) 今年出现了许多以香港为背景的小说。 (3) 车在结冰的路上打滑了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Of all the many nouns referring to a large group of things, one of the most fun is slew, as in "I saw a whole slew of birds in the tree by the river." |
| vocabulary扩展 | American English is constantly evolving, its richness coming from the many languages feeding into it. The noun slew, for instance, is from the Irish Gaelic sluagh, meaning "multitude." As an unrelated verb, it's the past tense of slay. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 Slew is the past tense of slay . 2 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)(车辆失控)滑行,(使)侧滑 If a vehicle slews or is slewed across a road, it slides across it. [V adv/prep] [V n prep/adv]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]许多;大量 A slew of things is a large number of them. [usu sing] [mainly AM 主美]
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