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单词 rivulet
释义
rivuletriv‧u‧let /ˈrɪvjəlɪt/ noun [countable] written Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrivulet
Origin:
1500-1600 Italian rivoletto, from Latin rivulus, from rivus ‘stream’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The snow began to melt and run in small rivulets.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Above him rivulets of mud slid through the boards of the roof.
  • As the snow began to melt and to run in rivulets, I held tighter to Charlie.
  • Fearon reappeared holding a towel, his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin.
  • I stared at the brown rivulets snaking down the wall where my window should have been.
  • I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom.
  • Jean sat back in her seat and watched the rivulets of rain run down the windscreen.
  • Remember the driveway, with the rivulets redesigning it each time it rained?
  • Springs had erupted in every hollow, and every path was a rivulet.
a very small stream of water or liquidrivulet of rivulets of rain running down the window
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