| 单词 | stream |
| 释义 | stream I. 1. a. < cross the river … not far from where General Washington forded the stream — Gladys Taber > — compare creek, river; see current table b. 2. a. < let loose a stream of commentary and discussion — R.W.Southern > < life presents a perpetual stream of problems — W.J.Reilly > b. < the balanced budget … injects as much into the income stream as it takes away — J.G.Gurley > < a steady stream of material flowed into the Smithsonian from … all over the world — D.S. & Jessie Jordan > c. < sent a stream of miners pouring … west — R.A.Billington > < a stream of Sunday traffic > < goats followed him — a long stream that pattered on small sharp hoofs behind him — Stuart Cloete > 3. a. < a stream of water … from a fire nozzle — W.Y.Kimball > < pour a sticky stream of syrup from a pitcher > < a reaction stream can be switched from one line to the other — Chem. & Engineering News > b. < streams of sweat pour down his back > c. < moisture was kept at a high level by a deep stream of persistent northerly winds — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > < an electric current is a stream of … electrons — Leonard Engel > d. (1) < ice streams coalesced to form a piedmont glacier — Journal of Geology > (2) < dated lava streams — W.J.Miller > (3) < the dune advances … down the sand stream — Geographical Journal > — compare rock stream 4. a. < the ashen stream of daybreak — Ellen Glasgow > b. obsolete < saw another comet … but the stream not so long as the former — John Evelyn > 5. a. < the Gulf stream > b. < anchored out in the stream and came ashore in a launch > c. < floating straight, obedient to the stream — Shakespeare > < row against the stream > d. < in full accord with the main stream of British policy — New Statesman & Nation > e. < the two streams of heredity … that shaped his life — C.A.Dinsmore > < academicians, men out of the main creative stream of their time — Donald Mintz > < eddies in the great stream of baroque music — P.H.Lang > 6. streams plural, archaic < a river … pours its streams through a narrow vale — Sir Walter Scott > Synonyms: see flow • - on stream II. intransitive verb 1. a. < a river streams to the sea > < firelight and dance music stream out from its windows — Douglas Stewart > < a cooler wind was beginning to stream through the … palms — Jean Boley > < capes and headlands …streaming away into the west — H.H.Finlayson > < wealth streaming through his fingers — Joseph Conrad > b. < a falling star streamed down the blue vault — O.S.J.Gogarty > 2. a. < holding his pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes — Lewis Carroll > b. < streaming with perspiration under the hot klieg lights > 3. < kelps, anchored to rocks while streaming out in the water — R.E.Coker > < outthrust neck and streaming legs are characteristic of its flight — National Geographic > < the boy, with hair streaming back, was rushing helter-skelter down the hill — John Galsworthy > 4. < passengers …streamed ashore on seven of the eight gangways — Vernon Pizer > < rooks went streaming across the windy sky — Mary Webb > < innumerable requests and invitations … stream in — Robert Bendiner > transitive verb 1. < his eyes streamed tears > 2. < its radiator grille streaming a flag — Kathryn Grondahl > 3. < stream an anchor buoy > < stream a paravane > < stream a grass line so that the other ship can grapple it and pick it up — Manual of Seamanship > 4. < slaves were streaming the gravel for tin ore — Charles Kingsley > Synonyms: see pour III. Britain |
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