单词 | pour |
释义 | pour I. transitive verb 1. a. (1) < poured out torrents of water — J.G.Vaeth > < pour grain into an elevator > < ranges … pour rivers down to the coast — M.B.Eldershaw > < summer pours warm sunlight … into the valleys — American Guide Series: Virginia > (2) < pour a drink > < pour tea > b. < pour men and money into the Netherlands — Stringfellow Barr > < pour out a torrent of words > < poured ridicule on the elaborate … analysis — Richard Hartshorne b. 1899 > < armies … that the Germans poured across Europe — Tom Wintringham > < sweet-tempered … pastors poured forth comfort and learning — Sinclair Lewis > < trying to pour sympathy all over the poor man — D.B.Chidsey > specifically < poured 30 bullets into his plane — Ed Cunningham > c. < travel-books … that our presses pour forth in floods — Louise Pound > < keep pouring out millions of cars, trucks and buses every year — Motor Transportation in the West > d. < poured the whip into the mules — Andy Adams > < poured on the steam > < began to pour heat on the business office — Human Organization > < poured in every ounce of power but couldn't make it > 2. a. < those who most long for peace now pour their lives on war — Muriel Rukeyser > b. < before our Father's throne, we pour our ardent prayers — John Fawcett > < thrasher from cactus and mesquite pours forth his song — D.C.Peattie > < pours out her troubles to them — Bosley Crowther > < pouring out his feelings in his poetry — Ruth R. Chapman > 3. a. < pour steel > < pour agar > < pour concrete > < nine sergeants were poured into plain clothes and set up in an office at Old Scotland Yard — J.D.Carr > < poured the barefooted doctor into the coach, gave him a quart of whiskey to work on, and pulled out — F.B.Gipson > b. < pour a foundation wall > intransitive verb 1. a. (1) < creeks pouring down from the uplands — Nan McDonald > < wind pours over the mountains — C.P.Aiken > < smoke … poured up from the blazing houses — Kenneth Roberts > < line pours off your reel — C.C.Van Fleet > (2) < it was raining — but not pouring — Robbie Barcroft > b. < Marines poured ashore and secured the beachhead — H.L.Merillat > < the promenading public still slowly poured up and down Fifth Avenue — Edith Wharton > < all this lore poured into a big filing cabinet — H.W.Thompson > < traffic poured over the new highway — G.R.Stewart > < our own stuff was pouring back on them — Fred Majdalany > < from your farms today food pours … to every corner of the country — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > c. < a spate of English grammars began to pour off the presses — N.C.Stageberg > < personality pours out of him — Victor Thompson > < calypsos pouring out of … jukeboxes — Paul Hofmann > d. < she was asked to pour at a little reception for the performers after the concert > 2. < channels … through which those emotions might pour — Oscar Handlin > Synonyms: < the torrential rain poured down for days > < to pour tributes on his head > < mail poured in in answer to the advertisement > < the crowd poured out of the front doors > stream suggests a flow limited by issuance through a channel or from an opening < tears streamed from her eyes > < light streamed through the window > < the rain streamed down the bank in small rivulets > gush stresses a suddenness and copiousness of the pouring forth as of something released from a close confinement < blood gushed from the wound > < the spring gushed forth > < words gushed from her in gratitude > sluice in this comparison always implies a confining flume or a channeled abundance of liquid < the rain fell with a frightening violence, … turning the opposite wall of the canyon into a sluicing cascade of muddy water — B.A.Williams > < the Connecticut, sluicing down between the Green and White mountains — R.W.Howard > < thrust her hands into the stream, then raised them, dripping, to sluice her face — Rebecca West > • - pour it on II. 1. < seals … carved sheer as cameos in the moon's full pour — E.W.Barker > < a great pour of contemptuous invective — Times Literary Supplement > especially 2. a. < carpenters were stripping and placing forms for the next pour — New Era in Concrete > b. < some mechanics use two pours of lead to fill the joint completely — Building, Estimating & Contracting > 3. a. b. |
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