buckets是什么意思？

buckets

• n. 水桶( bucket的名词复数 )，一桶（的量），大量；

例句

• Cheap plastic bowls and buckets flood (into) the market. 低廉的塑料碗和塑料桶充斥市场。
• Many wells, many buckets. 井多吊桶也多。
• It was exhausting work moving the heavy buckets, decanting the liquids. 搬动沉重的桶, 滗出液体,这些都是使人精疲力竭的工作.
• His heart clanged like fifteen buckets in a single well. 他心头上十五个吊桶打水,七上八下.
• They were playing on the beach with their buckets and spades . 他们带着桶和铲子在沙滩上玩。
• He was weeping buckets. 他正哭得稀里哗啦的。
• Bacon tumbled over the laundress's buckets in the passage through which he had to pass. 洗衣妇的水桶挡住了培根的必经之路,使他差一点绊倒.
• Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the flames. 人们提来一桶桶水灭火.
• The contents are emptied into color-coded buckets. 东西都被倒进不同颜色的桶里。
• ...upturned buckets... 倒扣的水桶

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （有提手的）桶，吊桶，水桶
  A bucket is a round metal or plastic container with a handle attached to its sides. Buckets are often used for holding and carrying water.
  例句
  We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door... 我们用一个吊桶从门外的井中打水。 The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades. 女孩们带着铲子和小桶在沙滩上快活地玩耍。
• QUANT
  大量
  Buckets or bucket-loads of something means a large amount of it.
  例句
  They obviously have buckets of confidence... 很明显，他们信心十足。 They didn't exactly sell bucket-loads of records the first time around. 其实，他们第一次唱片卖得并不很多。
• N-PLURAL
  （涕泪）滂沱；（大雨）瓢泼
  If someone cries buckets, they cry a lot because they are very upset. If it rains buckets, it rains a lot.
  例句
  He was weeping buckets... 他正哭得稀里哗啦的。 The rain was still coming down in buckets when we went back out. 我们回去时，外面的倾盆大雨仍然下个不停。
• PHRASE
  蹬腿儿；咽气儿
  If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.