| 释义 |
run high1(Of a river) be close to overflowing, with a strong current: the river was running high with the rain...- Homeowners and businesses in Sheffield and Doncaster had to pump water from downstairs rooms and cellars and loud hailers were used to warn businesses that the River Sheaf was running high close to Midland Station.
- The river is running high, and the boats settle into the current south of the Wilson Bridge.
- It's spring in western Montana; the rivers are running high and the newspapers are running stories of capsized canoes and dogs washed away.
Synonyms be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense 1.1(Of feelings) be intense: passions run high when marriages break up...- Passions have been running high in the Australian community with regard to her twenty-year sentence for drug trafficking; the majority of people believed she was innocent.
- As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious.
- Passions continued to run high in the Italian city of Genoa last night despite the end of the G8 summit.
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