Torrent

(noun.) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); 'the houses were swept away in the torrent'.

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• Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The heavy rains of a few days before had swelled the stream into a mad torrent, impassable except on bridges. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• For a moment she thought that she could stem the torrent, and that Raymond could be induced to hear reason from her. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Only minds of extraordinary toughness and originality could resist such a torrent of suggestion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The old man listened in astonishment to this lava-torrent of words which swept everything before it. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• At the opening of the bridge, one portion of which was for a railway, the shriek of the locomotive and the roar of the train mingled with the roar of the wild torrent 250 feet below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The road was a torrent of muddy snow-water. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Soldiers were being swept beneath the boiling torrent, never to rise. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I was tempted to cease struggling with him--to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• This was the figure that now started forward, and burst into an animated torrent of words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The tears did not glisten there, as they did in Leinster's; but they fell in torrents as he attempted to take leave of me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The rain fell in torrents. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The stage was fifteen miles long, the night was dark, the wind high, and the rain pouring in torrents. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The following morning the rain poured down in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It rained in torrents during the night of the 13th and the fore part of the day of the 14th. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The atmosphere was dense and heavy, while the rain fell in torrents on the heads of the mourners, and the wind whistled mournfully among the trees. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• At the fourth attempt to encounter him it began to rain in torrents, and she turned back. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was very cold and the rain fell in torrents. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The genius which gave freedom to America and scattered torrents of light upon Europe, is returned to the bosom of the Divinity! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A gigantic battle against floods and torrents, pestilence and swamps, tropical rivers, jungles and rock-ribbed mountains had been fought--and won! 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The atmosphere now began to threaten rain, which soon fell in torrents. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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