| 单词 | chain lightning |
| 释义 | chain lightning (once / 127090 pages) n WORD FAMILY chain lightning: chain lightnings USAGE EXAMPLESIt savaged patients and snaked like chain lightning out from the hospital through patients’ families. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone(1994) The Kraken backs up swings of its deadly tentacles with bursts of chain lightning. Washington Times(Feb 12, 2015) He hasn’t captured her this time; but he acts as though chain lightning had struck him. Coolidge, Asenath Carver, The Independence Day Horror at Kill...(2012) n a form of lightning that moves rapidly in a zigzag path with one end divided (fork-like) Syn|Hyper forked lightning lightning abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light |
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