pelting

1. N-COUNT （可用来制衣或制毯的）毛皮
   The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs.
   1. ...a bed covered with beaver pelts.
      铺着海狸毛皮的床
   2. ...rapidly diminishing suppliers of furs and pelts.
      数量锐减的毛皮供应商
2. VERB 向…投掷
   If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
   1. Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs...
      一些年轻人开始相互投掷雪球。
   2. Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.
      人群开始向警车扔石块。
3. VERB 倾泻；倾盆而下
   If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard.
   1. The rain now was pelting down...
      此刻大雨滂沱。
   2. It's pelting with rain...
      大雨倾盆。
   3. We drove through pelting rain.
      我们在倾盆大雨中驾车前行。
4. VERB 快速奔跑；飞奔
   If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast.
   1. Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
      她想都没想，穿着睡衣就飞奔下了楼。
5. PHRASE 全速；飞快地
   If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed.
   1. Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room...
      艾丽斯跳下车，拼命奔向急诊室。
   2. He drove his car through the gates at full pelt.
      他驾车急速通过大门。

1. The rain now was pelting down
   此刻大雨滂沱。
2. We drove through pelting rain.
   我们在倾盆大雨中驾车前行。
3. The rain came pelting down.
   倾盆大雨劈头盖脸地浇了下来。
4. Hailstones of abuse were pelting him.
   阵阵辱骂冰雹般地向他袭来。
5. The rain was pelting down.
   大雨滂沛。
6. Should either of them actually blow, the resulting toxic fallout could have dire economic consequences for their neighbors and deliver yet another pelting to investors.
   如果泰国或乌克兰的矛盾真的激化，随之出现的不利影响可能让邻国蒙受巨大经济损失，也会再次给投资者带来沉重的打击。
7. Perceiving a flock of beach-birds, that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them.
   接着，她看到一群海鸟在岸上飞来飞去地觅食，这调皮的孩子就拣满一围裙小石子，在岩石间爬着追逐着那些海鸟，投出一颗颗石子，显出不凡的身手。
8. Police said protesters demanding new anti-blasphemy laws began pelting police with stones late Sunday, and officers responded with rubber bullets.
   警方说，要求推出一部新反亵渎法的强硬派穆斯林星期天晚间开始向警察投掷石块，警察发射橡皮子弹予以回击。
9. Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets.
   再下来，三十或者四十封信像子弹一样从烟囱里飞了下来。
10. We bellowed our Yuletide toasts over the hail that had started pelting the corrugated iron roof.
    我俩高喊着为圣诞节干杯，声音盖过了敲打着波浪形铁皮屋顶的冰雹声。
11. It or the rain was really pelting down when I left.
    我离开时天正在下大雨。
12. And I'll come pelting down the corridor!
    我还会从走廊里玩命跑过来！
13. I'm not going out there-it's really pelting down.
    我不去那儿了，雨实在太大了。
14. The pelting rain felt cool and pleasant to her face.
    雨劈面打来，她倒觉得很爽快；
15. The rain is really pelting down.
    雨正猛烈地下着。
16. It's pelting with rain out there!
    那边正下着瓢泼大雨！
17. A few days later, the Lakers have thrown it back, showering him with hard cash in a move that seems only slightly smarter than pelting strangers with dollar bills.
    几天后，湖人反客为主，也玩起了相同的手法。但此举可比拜纳姆生日派队上向陌生人一掷千金聪明点。
18. The pelting rain soaked his clothes.
    倾盆大雨淋透了他的衣服。
19. He was pelting along the road as if someone were after him.
    他没命地跑着，似乎有人在追他。
20. Earthquakes, red dust, hail and pelting debris, and volcanic eruptions are predicted in prophecy and related to the End Times.
    地震，红尘，冰雹一样往下砸的残骸，和火山爆发，这些都出现在古老的预言中并且和世界末日相关。
21. She was last seen pelting along the road as if devils were after her.
    有人最后看见她沿着道路一个劲地飞跑，好像魔鬼在追她似的。
22. Earlier on Wednesday, masked youths threw hundreds of petrol bombs, burning a sentry box outside parliament, and pelting police officers with chunks of marble paving slabs.
    周三早些时候，蒙面的青年投掷了数百枚汽油弹，烧毁了国会外的一座岗亭，还向警察抛掷了大块的大理石地砖。
23. Pelting someone with shoes is considered a grave insult in the Arab world.
    在阿拉伯国家，向别人扔鞋是一种极具侮辱性的行为。
24. She was last seen pelting along the road as if devils were after her. In short, I possess you, bind you, follow you like the spirit of a ghost that's been wronged, and will not leave you in peace.
    有人最后看见她沿着道路一个劲地飞跑，好像魔鬼在追她似的。总而言之，我魔住你，缠着你，冤鬼作祟似的附上你，不放你清静。
25. After pelting each other for an hour revellers jump in a nearby river to clean themselves while the fire brigade hose down the streets.
    在番茄大战经过一小时后，狂欢者将跳入附近的河中清洗身体，而消防车会冲洗街道。
26. In Texas, the wintry weather forecast Friday was expected to be less severe than the pelting of snow and freezing rain that paralyzed much of the state this week.
    在得克萨斯州，冬天天气预报中星期五将预计要比在本周让该州大部分地区交通瘫痪的降雪和冰冷的雨水来的程度要缓解一些。
27. The white rabbit went pelting past alice.
    白兔飞速跑过了艾丽丝。
28. After tossing and turning all night. I awake before dawn to the clatter of something pelting the window.
    彻夜辗转反侧，黎明前我在窗户的卡嗒声中醒来。
29. A small, thin boy got up reluctantly from under the trees when the rain started pelting down more heavily.
    雨下得更大了，一个又小又瘦的男孩很不情愿地从树下走出来。

noun

1. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
   1. a rain of bullets
   2. a pelting of insults

   Synonym:    rain