| 单词 | lightning |
| 释义 | lightning (once / 257 pages) n When you see sudden bright flashes of light in the sky, you're seeing lightning, the release of electricity between clouds or the ground. Lightning can be scary, and if it strikes a person, it can kill. You can tell how close the lightning is by how long the delay is between the light and the sound of the rolling roar or crack of thunder that accompanies it. If they're close together, get inside, quick! Because lighting strikes so fast, we use its name for other speedy things, like the lightning-fast service at a good coffee shop. WORD FAMILYlightning: lightnings USAGE EXAMPLESEmerald Coast Utilities Authority issued a notice of a sanitary sewer overflow caused by a 15-minute loss of power from a lightning strike. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Now Netflix is hoping to recreate lightning in a bottle with season two of Stranger Things. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Lightning: At home for the second game of a five-game homestand Thursday night against Toronto, which played at Florida on Wednesday night. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more Hypo|Hyper heat lightning bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings); usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds sheet lightinglightning that appears as a broad sheet; due to reflections of more distant lightning and to diffusion by the clouds flash a sudden intense burst of radiant energy 2n abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light Hypo|Hyper chain lightning, forked lightning a form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like) bolt, bolt of lightning, thunderbolta discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder atmospheric electricity electrical discharges in the atmosphere |
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