| 单词 | pelt |
| 释义 | pelt (pelt ) Word forms: pelts , pelting , pelted 1. countable noun [usually plural] The pelt of an animal is its skin, which can be used to make clothing or rugs. ...a bed covered with beaver pelts. ...rapidly diminishing suppliers of furs and pelts. Synonyms: coat, fell, skin, hide 2. verb If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them. Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs. [VERB noun + with] Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones. [VERB noun with noun] Synonyms: shower, beat, strike, pepper 3. verb [usually cont] If the rain is pelting down, or if it is pelting with rain, it is raining very hard. [informal] The rain now was pelting down. [VERB adverb] It's pelting with rain. [VERB with noun] We drove through pelting rain. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: pour, teem, rain hard, bucket down [informal] 4. verb If you pelt somewhere, you run there very fast. [informal] Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: rush, charge, shoot, career 5. full pelt/at full pelt phrase If you do something full pelt or at full pelt, you do it very quickly indeed. [informal] Alice leapt from the car and ran full pelt towards the emergency room. He drove his car through the gates at full pelt. Translations: Chinese: 皮动物的, 投掷动物的 Japanese: 動物の皮服飾または装飾用の, 投げつける |
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